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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: reverse foo('bar')
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.175335.21562@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:53:35 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.194252.19124@convex.com> <119431@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan22.001456.24237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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As quoted from <1991Jan22.001456.24237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> by phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN):
+---------------
| rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
| >Hell, perl is already half as big as emacs.
| 
| -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.
+---------------

Under System V, strip(1)'ing xemacs shrinks it by over half --- and you might
as well do it if gdb doesn't work on your system, because sdb can't handle it.
(An artifact of unexec, I believe --- COFF auxents are dumped incorrectly.)
In any case, on telotech xemacs is indeed slightly over twice the size of perl,
although I admit that while xemacs is stripped, perl is not.

(Quick note for those who wonder:  "xemacs" is not emacs for X, it is the name
of the dumped emacs with pre-loaded Lisp code.  The "bare" emacs without Lisp
code in it is "temacs".)

++Brandon
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