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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Yet another R5 wish
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Date: 25 Jul 90 14:03:06 GMT
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In article <1463@shodha.dec.com>, schoeller@clt.enet.dec.com (Dick
Schoeller) writes:
|> > |> |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).
|> 

Sorry, I should have said how will the shared code option help (I
understand how using shared libraries will help). 


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