From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 2 12:37:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01263 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01250 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01244; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811022030.MAA01244@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Andrzej Bialecki , Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:24:43 +0100." <25312.910038283@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:30:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> > >> 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. That doesn't get you the bytecoder though. One of Forth's undeniable advantages is that its internal bytecoded representation is pretty damn compact. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message