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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:41:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, reilly@zeta.org.au
Subject:   Re: ELF binaries size
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809021140280.12750-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199809020830.SAA18187@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >The page is wasted through padding in the image, or it is wasted
> >through padding in the execution class loader.  Either way, it is
> >wasted in the in-memory image of the application.
> 
> No, padding in (relatively cheap) disk space saves an average of half
> a page in (relatively expensive) memory.
> 
> >The savings are disk-space only.
> 
> Perhaps not even there, because file systems allocate in blocks, or at
> least fragments.

...except when you use crunchgen to glue the binaries together.

Andrzej Bialecki

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