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Re: executor/1.99m/linux questions



>>>>> "Wessel" == Wessel Kraaij <Wessel.Kraaij@let.ruu.nl> writes:

Others have kindly already answered Wessel's first two questions.

    Wessel> My linux box (DX2/50) has 8 Mb of main memory. Executor
    Wessel> performs rather slow, would executor benefit more from
    Wessel> memory expansion or from processor upgrade?

More memory now will definitely improve Executor/X-Windows
performance.  At some point after we get Executor/NEXTSTEP going
again, we are likely to have an SVGALIB version of Executor/Linux.  It
is not clear how much memory Executor/SVGALIB will need.  In addition,
our Linux version is not particularly tuned toward efficient memory
use, but even when it is, Executor itself is about 1.5 MB and needs
room for the Mac program that you're going to run.  It also needs room
for the memory that the Mac program requires and beyond that there is
need for additional memory for the translated to x86 version of the
Mac program Executor's running, so even a memory-tuned SVGALIB version
is still going to take up a bunch of memory if you want to do anything
interesting with it.

	--Cliff


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