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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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