Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:27:02 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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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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