Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!decwrl!ads.com!potomac.ads.com!jtn From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Small executables (was Re: 16mb minimum for next machines) Message-ID: <1991May2.142103.6047@potomac.ads.com> Date: 2 May 91 14:21:03 GMT References: <3381@kluge.fiu.edu> <1991May1.062022.1056@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA Lines: 6 ... ahem yes well all this talk about the size of binaries implies that compiler writers are no longer concerned with space effeciency as they used to be since internal memory is now cheap as dirt and besides, you've got virtual memory so no problem right? Hmmmm... still compilers should be more effecient about what they generate.