Messages in this thread | | | From | Robert de Bath <> | Subject | Re: initrd and NFS | Date | Tue, 20 May 1997 23:31:07 +0100 |
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On 20 May 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I actually wrote a tool to do this while working for Yggdrasil. The > bottom line is that it isn't worth the hassle: even with the very > small spectrum of binaries that we were using, it only cut down libc > by some 10-15%, and you may have to recompile it if you add any more > binaries to the pool you want to execute...
Of course, you could use Dev86 from the elks project to make i386 executables now. The code generator isn't brilliant but the libc is really tiny ... of course thats a problem too, there's a lot missing from the libc.
Eg: gzip-1.2.4 Mode Size Compress time gcc static 167k 15 sec gcc shared 55k + libc.so 15 sec bcc -Ml 68k 23 sec
-- Rob. (Robert de Bath <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>)
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