Strings in Standard Library

[Derek E. Terveer]

In article <1991Mar28.033357.1439 at toolz.uucp>, todd at toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
|> I noticed that the last release of the Unix development software
|>  from Interactive included object libraries with many strings [...]
|> Is it too much to ask of Interactive to just leave all that static data out? 

But how much extra data is really loaded?  Are those comments really loaded?  If
they are strings embedded in the code, i suppose that they would be.  But doing
a "mcs -p /lib/lib*a /usr/lib/lib*a|wc" revealed a total of 450K of strings in
all of the /lib and /usr/lib libraries, total.  Certainly only a fraction of those
libraries are loaded into any application, so maybe we are only talking a few 10s of
K here...

derek
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