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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews ported to V/AT?
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.170832.23741@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <45@frau.UUCP> <3+1:A3-@splut.conmicro.com> <1990Feb8.182437.25095@utzoo.uucp> <1990Feb12.193629.16193@utzoo.uucp> <PG8:&K:@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 17:08:32 GMT

In article <PG8:&K:@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>>Question:  are you answering "small" when build asks you whether it
>>should use the small-address-space or large-address-space library?
>
>Yes, I am.
>What's the difference between the two?

Libsmall uses different strategies for a couple of things than libbig;
in particular, libsmall does not try to keep the entire active file in
memory.
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