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From: batson@cg-atla.UUCP (Jay Batson X5927)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 19:07:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 19:07:03 1987
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In article <2067@sfsup.UUCP> shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro) writes:
>In article <2501@xanth.UUCP>, kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>> In <14888@topaz.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) sez:
>> 
>> > What you really want is shared libraries....
>> 
>> Please explain more about shared libraries.
>
>Side observation: If your binary is 500K, shared libraries don't help much.
>They just don't represent a significant portion of your code. If your
>binary is really that big, you probably have a lot of rethinking to do....

Well, don't forget about shared libraries used by, say, suntools/windows/....
These kinds of "tookit" things can quickly grow things over a meg....

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