Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:22:26 -0800 (PST) | From | "W. Reilly Cooley" <> | Subject | Re: [offtopic] Re: If Linux is to succeed |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Compare this with the 167 Linux system calls. > > > > You, however, are neglecting that the many Windows API calls are for > > graphical manipulation, e.g., InvalidateRect(), MsgBox(), and > > ShowWindow(). For this to be an accurate comparison you'd also have to > > include the Xlib and perhaps also X Toolkit calls. > > pc5829:/usr/X11R6/man/man3$ grep -l 'XLIB FUNCTIONS' * | wc -l > 181 > pc5829:/usr/X11R6/man/man3$ grep -l 'XT FUNCTIONS' * | wc -l > 95 > > 181+95 calls.
Point taken. 167+181+95=443 vs ~1500
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