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- From: ouster@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John Ousterhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 21:25:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.202152.22882@cis.ohio-state.edu>, mdm@pear.cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael Moore) writes:
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- |>
- |> I know this is a dumb question, but why is the libtk.a library
- |> a third the size of tk2.3? Was it something John did in the overhaul or
- |> the way it was archived, perhaps? Whatever the case may be, I'm glad it
- |> shrunk. The smaller the better!
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |>
- |> -Michael
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- I changed the default compilation switches from "-g" to "-O". Most of
- the extra size in Tk 2.3 was probably debugger symbols that never got
- loaded into memory during execution anyway.
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