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From: scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Date: 18 May 1993 03:51:31 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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In article <C72C05.B1B@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>A couple of Xterms eat up *megabytes*? I knew X was fat, but this is just
>downright ridiculous. What's it doing with all that memory?
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   Har du kramat din varg idag?
>  'U`    
>"Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."

It's called static libraries.  Take a look at the program called 'xlogo'. 
500k+ to display an X in a window.  Sick, huh?  btw, how is the work on
shared libraries coming?

-sl