From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can I split my EXE-file into a EXE-file and a OBJ-file?
Date: 30 Mar 1998 13:51:00 GMT
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> At 06:57  3/29/1998 +0200, Nils Emil P. Larsen wrote:
> >I don't know why, but I diden't like EXE-files larger than 50 KB and I have
> >no technical reason for that....

50K isn't much nowadays...

Nate Eldredge (eldredge AT ap DOT net) wrote:
> After all, even many real-mode DOS executables are larger than 50K (Turbo C,
> for instance, is around 450K). And in Unix, large executables are the norm
> (I think my Linux box has an Emacs executable of about 2M, and that's with
> shared libraries!). The traditional DOS scheme of a small executable and
> many overlay files or other loadable code is a relic of the days when 64K
> was a lot of memory.

Yeah, 640K should be enough for everybody...

On this SunOS-Sparc:
/home/mdruiter/ $ ls -al `which emacs ls`
...   16644 May  3  1996 /usr/bin/ls
... 3418992 Jun 23  1997 /usr/local/public/bin/emacs

Emacs' executable being large is very probably because Emacs can do
everything :-) And because it contains a lot of strings.

-- 
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