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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 22:17:32 -0700
Organization: Me
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Warwick Allison wrote:
]
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
]
] >If you only distribute binaries, then there isn't a problem.
]
] STOP SAYING THAT. I don't want 2Mb binaries for every GUI app.
] A statically linked app is a BROKEN app. Fine for demos, but crap
] for something to standardize on.
So pay the $90 and use the shared version. It's cheaper than
the soloution you came up with...
] I have 3 copies of the netscape binary running on my machine
] (one local, one displaying on an X-Terminal in my kitchen, and
] one displaying on my SO's machine), so I had to get an extra
] 16M of RAM. And that's just *ONE* application.
A statically linked image should not have this effect... the
pages should be shared.
If you were running a bunch of different applications, THEN
you would need more RAM for more Motif applicaitons. Running
the same application shouldn't need this.
Doesn't your OS have a unified VM and buffer cache?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.