Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!samsung!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: reverse foo('bar') Message-ID: <119480@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 22 Jan 91 05:27:10 GMT References: <1991Jan21.194252.19124@convex.com> <119431@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan22.001456.24237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 30 In article <1991Jan22.001456.24237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes: >rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: > >>Hell, perl is already half as big as emacs. > >I don't know if I would say that. > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1706316 Jan 26 1990 /usr/local/bin/emacs >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root 319265 Jan 16 06:20 /usr/local/bin/perl > >The above are on a Sequent S81. I just installed 18.56 today. Perhaps your emacs is not stripped and/or perhaps you built yours for X11 or suntools? Or you loaded more? Our perl is 3.044. Our S81 runs Dynix 3.0.17.9. My stats are: ls -lsg /usr/local/bin/{emacs,perl} 640 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbj sysadm 643072 Jan 22 00:15 /usr/local/bin/emacs 368 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sysadm 365075 Dec 4 14:27 /usr/local/bin/perl For comparison: ls -lsg /dynix 668 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 677285 Jan 7 14:34 /dynix -- Root Boy Jim Cottrell Close the gap of the dark year in between