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- From: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (Nick Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: More checks on size of ATK applications
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 10:03:10 GMT
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- Well, I'm still trying to cut down the size of ATK apps.
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- As Nathaniel points out, much of the overhead in the applications is
- from the ATK itself, and the message server business with messages will
- only decrease the size in a minor way. However in the SunOS environment,
- where the `.do' files really use the SunOS dynamic library mechanism,
- surely it'd be better to have the statload business in runapp eliminated
- and make everything dynamic (including the linking of the X11 libraries,
- etc).
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- This way, it'd take an extra micro-moment to start up the application,
- which people wouldn't really notice, but most of the application could
- be shared between processes; unless I'm wrong, dynamic linking of
- libraries allows applications to share the text image of the libraries,
- so cutting down on swap size. Hence the 900 odd K of runapp could be
- cut down fairly massively.
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- Am I wrong?
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- Nick Williams E-mail: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (MIME and ATK)
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