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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: libc.so.4.2 Caveats!
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:26:24 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- M.Gream@uts.EDU.AU (Matthew Gream) writes:
-
- >Giles D Malet (gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca) wrote:
-
- >: You have already been told how to reduce the program size (-N).
-
- > Correct me if I am wrong, but doesnt -N also mean that the program is
- >not demand page linked? In otherwords at execution time the entire
- >file is loaded into memory.
-
- >Matthew.
- >--
-
- Yes this is true, and so I wouldn't do it to big binaries like bash, or emacs.
-
- But, what most people are trying to do is get their little programs down to
- the smallest possible size. When a program hits 1-2k in size demand paging
- isn't going to help. It will all get loaded in almost immediatl under that
- scheme anyways.
-
- James
-