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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 18:12:33 EDT
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In <417@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
> But on these demand paged Suns, we see such stupidity as:
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root       122880 Sep 15  1986 /bin/csh*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 david      737280 Aug 14 16:34 bin/shelltool*
> 
> where most of the huge increase in size of shelltool is in the window
> management stuff.  Isn't this stuff shared across all sorts of things
> in SunWindows?  If so, why is EVERY "tool" so VERY slow loading?

From what I've read about the Macintosh (I don't own one), it appears
they did the right thing by putting the window management tools into
ROM.  I sure wish Sun would do something like that.  Having a 30 line
graphics program that only uses the line drawing facilities of pixrect
compile into a 200K executable is rather disconcerting.

kyle jones  <kyle@odu.edu>  old dominion university, norfolk, va  usa