Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:24:43 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <25312.910038283@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:19:12 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811022115450.2746-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811022115450.2746-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>, Andr zej Bialecki writes: >On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> >For on-disk usage, the key issue to me is avoiding anti-bloatist >> >complaint (which have their fair justification). I'd like to think we >> >can stabilise at an object under the 100k mark, although there are of >> >course no real hard limits yet. >> >> Sigh, If Satoshi hadn't yanked tcl out, we could have used that... > >You must mean tcl4 or even earlier, then... Newer versions of tcl are >somewhere around 300kB. Besides, you talk about 100k mark as of tcl object >limit, whereas Mike was talking probably about the whole bootloader >size, right? If you par down tcl to "just the language" it is about 80k still I think. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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