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- Subject: Re: ODF 1 - download issues
- Sent: 5/16/96 9:52 PM
- Received: 5/17/96 9:03 AM
- From: Jim Lloyd, jim@melongem.com
- Reply-To: ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
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- At 3:45 PM 5/16/96, Chris Hunt wrote:
- >3. ODF now requires more memory for building things. I've only got a 24MB
- >machine (which I used to think of as a lot!). ODF seems to require a
- >minimum of around the 32MB figure.
- >
- >Consequently, I had to turn on virtual memory (I allocated a 48MB swap
- >file). Consequently, things have slowed down.
- >
- >4. Perhaps 'cause of virtual memory, perhaps 'cause of the increase in ODF
- >1 functionality, my compiles "seem" to take a lot longer. For example,
- >making a small change to a part takes ages for things to compile. What's
- >going on? Is it 'cause of virtual memory?
-
- Yes, VM slows down the builds quite a bit. You might experiment with
- precompiling less, which might let you build in 24Mb.
-
- >5. ODF Parts seem to be at least twice as big as their raw OpenDoc/C++
- >counterparts e.g. ODF Nothing comes in at 340K whilst SamplePart comes in
- >at 145K. I presume and hope that the release that moves the ODF Framework
- >layer into a shared lib will bring things back down to the 145K mark (I
- >can understand it being, say, 20% bigger).
-
- You're comparing the ODFNothing debug build to the SamplePart release
- build, I think. The release build of ODFNothing is about 175K.
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- Jim Lloyd
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