From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 02:38:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23813 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 02:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23806 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 02:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA14162; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:41:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:41:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Bruce Evans cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, reilly@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: ELF binaries size In-Reply-To: <199809020830.SAA18187@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||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