Shared libraries

[Masataka Ohta]

In article <1991Apr25.175547.21534 at kithrup.COM>
	sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>>As shown <112 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> in comp.unix.wizards, total size of
>>binaries excluding X11 is comparable to its machines real memory size.
>>This means, real memory consumption is negligible unless we want to
>>execute all binaries at once.
>
>What mean we, white man?

I amd rather a yellow monkey. :-)

>Back before I got that additional 4Mbytes, the only reason kithrup was able
>to run decently was because all or most of the system binaries were built
>using shared libraries (uucp being the major exception, and the major cause
>for system slowness as a result).

Strange. Code segment size of UUCP is small compared to 4MB.

>Not everyone has a system in which 8Mbytes is considered a small cache, you
>know.

So, don't run a big window system, white man.

							Masataka Ohta