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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries are not necessary
Keywords: X11 silliness
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Date: 10 Jun 91 04:15:21 GMT
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In article <1991Jun9.104502.2167@research.canon.oz.au>
	andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:

>>When you are writing a program, or drawing a picture, you often concentrate
>>on a single application. Then, unless you are running something like xeyes,
>>there is only one "actively running" process.

>...and a clock, and a mail minder, and a manual browser, a couple of
>performance monitors, a calendar manager, etc, etc... Soon adds up.

Though I can't stop you from bloating your environment, not everybody
believes in bloatation. Along this discussion, I remember two people said
they use window system only because they need multiple terminals (their
articles have expired on my site).

If one is running only one active process because he has limited
amount of real memory, memory consumption increase and performance
decrease by shared libraries is a curse.

						Masataka Ohta