Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:33:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Sizes of executables
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> But as a thought I find that GNU programs (probably because of the
> compiler GCC) have a large memory requirement. Even the compiler GCC is a
> pretty memory hungry app IMHO.

GNU programs are intentionally written with the assumption of a 
memory-abundant machine.  IIRC it's part of the GNU coding standards.

But programs written by anyone of us, if not designed to gobble lots of 
memory, will never do so, certainly not because they were compiled by 
GCC or linked with the DJGPP library.

Anyway, the initial concern in this thread was about disk space 
consumption, not about run-time memory consumption.