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- From: M.D.Beer@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk (Martin Beer)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: More checks on size of ATK applications
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 11:28:20 GMT
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- Excerpts from mail: 21-Aug-92 More checks on size of ATK .. Nick
- Williams@uk.ac.city (1089)
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-
- > Well, I'm still trying to cut down the size of ATK apps.
-
- > 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).
-
- > 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.
-
- > Am I wrong?
-
- > Nick Williams E-mail: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (MIME and ATK)
- > Systems Architecture Research Centre, Tel: +44 71 477 8551
- > London, EC1V 0HB Fax: +44 71 477 8587
-
-
- We have successfully done this on our Hp 700's and runapp has reduced
- from over 1.1 Mbytes to 135kbytes, and everything seems to work well. I
- certainly do not notice any slow-down.
-
- Martin Beer
-
- Dr. Martin Beer,
- Department of Computer Science, Telephone 051-794-3672
- University of Liverpool, Fax: 051-794-3715
- Chadwick Tower, P.O. Box 147, EMail mdb@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
- LIVERPOOL. L69 3BX. United Kingdom.
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