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From: lmcvoy@eta.ETA.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <8700170@eta.ETA.COM>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 23:23:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 23:23:05 1987
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Reply-To: lmcvoy@eta.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: ETA Systems, Inc., St Paul, MN, USA
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Keywords: cost of bloated programs
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In article <2473@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>[ argument that says program should be small because of load time ]

Um, it seems to me that this issue is nice handled by demand paging.
Provided that your pages don't get big (1-10k is probably cool), you
don't really pay for anything that you don't use.  You lean on locality
a lot, but if you're really worried about it, profiling and reordering 
code will kill that too.

Get a VM machine & kwit yer bitchin :-)
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