Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Building X386v1.1 Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 14:32:40 GMT References: <199@gouche.UUCP> <1991Feb21.084912.6034@newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de's message of 21 Feb 91 08:49:12 GMT On 21 Feb 91 08:49:12 GMT, roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) said: roell> 2. Now you should also mention, that you created a new roell> data-section for each shared lib. This means at least 4kBytes roell> additional memory requirement, plus some addtional memory for the roell> region-table, and the mmu. Now consider an application like roell> xterm. This one needs libX11, libXext, libXt, libXmu & libXaw. roell> I.e an addtional memory-overhead of 20k (minimum !!!). I think roell> this is UNACCEPTABLE ! And here Thomas Roell gets blacklisted by the Imperial MITI DRAM Service, and will never find a job with major Unix machine vendors :-). Too bad for you, unless of course you clarify your statement and make it obvious that you meant to say that an additional memory overhead of 20KB is unacceptable because it is too small! :-). -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk