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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:56:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Executable size
In-Reply-To: <199607110153.AA100430035@relay1.geis.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960711095412.6763E-100000@is>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> P.S.:  I would like to point out something else as well - under DJGPP v1,
> the stubbed images were indeed smaller than with v2, but the go32
> extender was 3 times as large as CWSDPMI.

To say nothing of the fact that go32 would be loaded anew for every child 
program, which would cause your system to run out of DOS memory awful 
fast.  Anybody who tried to run recursive Make's with v1.x knows what I'm 
talking about.

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