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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
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Date: 26 Apr 91 07:26:09 GMT
References: <112@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <716@seqp4.UUCP> <136@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991Apr25.175547.21534@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1991Apr25.175547.21534@kithrup.COM>
	sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>>As shown <112@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> in comp.unix.wizards, total size of
>>binaries excluding X11 is comparable to its machines real memory size.
>>This means, real memory consumption is negligible unless we want to
>>execute all binaries at once.
>
>What mean we, white man?

I amd rather a yellow monkey. :-)

>Back before I got that additional 4Mbytes, the only reason kithrup was able
>to run decently was because all or most of the system binaries were built
>using shared libraries (uucp being the major exception, and the major cause
>for system slowness as a result).

Strange. Code segment size of UUCP is small compared to 4MB.

>Not everyone has a system in which 8Mbytes is considered a small cache, you
>know.

So, don't run a big window system, white man.

							Masataka Ohta