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From: meo@rsiatl.UUCP (Miles ONeal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Yet another R5 wish
Message-ID: <3287@rsiatl.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 90 16:48:08 GMT
Organization: Systems & Software Solutions, Inc.
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(Chris Rouch) writes:

|One of the major problems we've had since upgrading to X11R4 is the size
|of the applications. A typical (athena widget) application is of the
|order of 2Mb; even a simple one is over 1Mb (R4 applications seem to be
|between 20 and 50% bigger than their R3 equivelants). These soon add up
|with the result that we frequently run out of swap space. It would be
|really nice if the size of these could be reduced somewhat. 

Have you tried either shared libraries, or the -n (shared code)
link option? The first works well of you run a mix of applications;
the latter works well if lots of people run the same (few)
applications.

-Miles