Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 18:05:25 GMT References: <8012@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan23.223402.28704@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com's message of 23 Jan 91 22:34:02 GMT In article <1991Jan23.223402.28704@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: > What does that mean? It means that the size of your executable > under SunOs is smaller than under Ultrix, but otherwise it doesn't make > a whole huge difference, depending on the way you run your applications. The big difference is when you run several different window-based applications. Sun use to link several SunView applications into one executable, and by examining the name of the command, jump to the proper branch of the executable. Therefore 5 different programs were really one, and only required one copy in memory. I don't know if this could be done with common DECwindows applications. If you don't have enough memory to run all of the applications at once, shared libraries can make a big difference. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett