Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Bill Sommerfeld <email@example.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 02/09/1999 10:23:11
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:12:24 -0500
Bill Sommerfeld <email@example.com> wrote:
> Umm, given that BSD has had shared text for a very long time, I don't
> understand why this would be the case. If all you're doing is
> compiling programs written in a single language, I'd think that shared
> libcc1 would *increase* memory usage, as PIC code is almost invariably
> less space-efficient than non-PIC code.
Yah yah... pre-coffee goof... sorry :-)
> > In fact, the disk space savings of shared libcc1 is downright critical
> > to get the compiler to fit on some of our platforms!
> This, on the other hand sounds important..
Right... Some poeple might laugh, but VAX users can't always get big, modern
-- Jason R. Thorpe <firstname.lastname@example.org>