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From: john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Bash (was Re: csh)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.230355.29442@chance.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 91 23:03:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.223519.25569@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <2078@public.BTR.COM> <GUEST.91Mar11200632@geech.ai.mit.edu>
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|On the down side,
|I compiled it with gcc (no shared libs) and it is >600K.

Yowza!  That borders on obscene!  I seem to remember emacs being
smaller than that.  Shared libraries will only save you 20k or so.
Just for comparison:

1.14> size /bin/sh /bin/ksh /usr/local/bin/ksh rc
/bin/sh: 36036 + 3372 + 3096 = 42504
/bin/ksh: 86376 + 2024 + 4564 = 92964
/usr/local/bin/ksh: 63812(.text) + 9464(.data) + 5996(.bss) + 0(.lib)
= 79272
rc: 37892(.text) + 5452(.data) + 9132(.bss) + 0(.lib) = 52476

The local ksh is a relative of the PD ksh that was posted to
alt.sources some time ago, and includes commandline editting, filename
completion etc.  Rc is the clone of the V10 and Plan 9 shell of the
same name, and does not have fancy editting.