Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:

> Russell Shaw <rjshawN_o@s_pam.netspace.net.au> writes: 
>
> Really, the "bloat" is not very big:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/emacs /bin/vim /usr/apps/mozilla/mozilla-bi
n \
>         /usr/bin/mutt /usr/bin/irc-4.4
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     1020164 2003-04-18 10:36 /bin/vim*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     4166640 2003-03-28 05:00 /usr/bin/emacs*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root      563612 2004-02-12 09:46 /usr/bin/mutt*
> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     1257284 2003-03-13 23:33 /usr/bin/perl*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 pjb      1773582 2004-07-15 22:05 /usr/apps/mozilla/mozill
a-bin*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 pjb      1365939 2003-12-14 00:41 /usr/bin/irc-4.4*
>
> What's the difference between 1M and 4M when you've got gigabytes of
> RAM?  Moreover, what's the difference when you amortize it over the
> multiple use?  If you need to launch vim, mozilla, perl, mutt, irc,
> etc, you really fast get to use much more memory than with emacs which
> can do everything at once.

You can't just look at the mozilla executable.  My firefox installation
takes 21MB of disk space.  A newly launched copy uses 20MB of RAM, and
after browsing about a little, it grows to 50MB or more.

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Måns Rullgård
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