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From: alexk@swdev.research.otc.com.au (Alex Kowalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: XFree1-2 + 386BSD performance
Date: 17 May 1993 05:58:12 GMT
Organization: Technical Development Group, Telstra International
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>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?

I thought it was common knowledge that running X server and some X applications comusme
a fair proportion of a 8MB machine, and forget compiling something significant (ie.
an Xview program) with X running.

GCC does run to several megabtyes, but GCC 2.3.3 is much worse.  It is best sticking with
Gcc 1.X and praying for an aggreed and stable cannonical (and probably 
extremely unofficial and never-let-me-ever-imply-that-Mr-Jolitz-ever-mutthered-a-word-of
approval-of-it :-) implementation of shared libs.  Bet you'll see it first in NETBSD.

>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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