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From: schoeller@clt.enet.dec.com (Dick Schoeller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Yet another R5 wish
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Date: 24 Jul 90 12:30:53 GMT
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> |> |One of the major problems we've had since upgrading to X11R4 is the size
> |> |of the applications.
> 
> |> Have you tried either shared libraries, or the -n (shared code)

> Hmm. This may help on a mult-iuser system with X terminals hanging off
> it, but on single-user workstations it's not going to make a lot of
> difference. Or am I missing something?

Sure it will help.  If you are on a single-user workstation running a large
number of toolkit applications simultaneously, they can share the toolkit
library.  The same is true for all xlib applications (including toolkit
apps).

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