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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> whether it's sheel script or otherwise, your still going to end up
> with a file much less than 1K is size, so who cares?
....
> It wasn't the size the made me do this, is was more of a speed issue
> on some nasty scripts I had somewhere, I did it for speed, and
> because I was at one point installing linux on machines with 2MB of
> ram....

The obvious fix is to roll a bunch of these tiny programs into one and
differentiate using argv[0]. Fewer pages in core, fewer blocks on disk,
and better script performance. The natural extension of this idea is to
link all of /bin into one monolithic demand-loaded executable. Woohoo.
Tomsrtbt is most of the way there.

But we should all be ashamed for extending such a tangent on the list
anyway..

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