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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 11 Apr 1994 20:52:13 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site
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In article <yX2Lkc3w165w@oasys.pc.my>, Othman Ahmad <othman@oasys.pc.my> wrote:
>csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes:
>Warning! Shared libs will slow down your machine and save only little of
>your overall disk space(only 10%), because data is much more than code.

When I saw my  /usr partition come from  45 MB down  to 32  MB, I was  very
happy. When my /usr/X386/bin  directory lost more than  50% of its size,  I
was very very happy. 

So  it is not  just 10%. I  agree that for  most binaries, the  gain is not
stupenduous but it is essential for X...

And it is far from being slow either.

I'd never revert to 1.0.2 anymore.

Thanks to Paul who bring shared libs to *BSD users !
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                          Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A FreeBSD & PERL addict...                PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers 
Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !