From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 01:00:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA16916 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:00:42 -0700 Received: from diamond.sierra.net (diamond.sierra.net [204.94.39.235]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA16910 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:00:39 -0700 Received: from martis-d225.sierra.net by diamond.sierra.net with SMTP id AA17392 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:00:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199508290800.AA17392@diamond.sierra.net> From: "Jim Howard" To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 23:31:19 -0800 Subject: Re: gnumalloc Reply-To: jiho@sierra.net Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman asserts: > Disk space costs less than $1 per megabyte-year, and is continuing to > drop sharply. Memory costs are still not as low as they once were, > but demands placed on the system as a result of other hype in the PC > world will eventually result in more production capacity coming > on-line. There's not much value in optimizing for space. Not much value to whom? You make many assumptions. Perhaps the key word is "value," on the other side of the coin: People with a vested interest in propping up profit margins on hardware want to have the ante continually raised by software. There's a point past which the size-per-feature ratio becomes ludicrous, suggesting either gross incompetence or intent to defraud. --Jim Howard