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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!metro.atlanta.com!nntp.mindspring.com!usenet From: rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux's primitive C library (was Re: 386BSD Remarkable?) Date: 04 Sep 1994 13:49:49 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <RSANDERS.94Sep4094949@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <FOO-MAN.94Aug23191512@raven.raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> <Cv5u8o.CEn@calcite.rhyolite.com> <1994Aug27.175807.20821@cs.brown.edu> <RSANDERS.94Aug28172938@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <1994Aug29.024254.14252@cs.brown.edu> <RSANDERS.94Aug30141100@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <mrg.778669913@dynamo> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrothgar.mindspring.com In-reply-to: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU's message of Sun, 4 Sep 1994 09:11:53 GMT On Sun, 4 Sep 1994 09:11:53 GMT, mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) said: > i found that gdm was a big bloat (like most gnu stuff) that was > considerably slower than db (not that db is really that small..) Hmm. $ ls -l /usr/lib/libgdbm.a /usr/lib/libdb.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60368 Jun 25 02:39 /usr/lib/libdb.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20496 Apr 4 17:31 /usr/lib/libgdbm.a Yes, you're right. gdbm is absolutely huge. Linux's new C library includes the curses from nvi 1.34 and does or will soon incorporate the BSD db library for both db-specific code and ndbm compatibility. -- Robert