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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:45:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4444FB77.6020203@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b93fd48330fc4e597126e4d165dbbcce@swtch.com>

Russ Cox wrote:

> Shared libraries would help a lot here.

That's one option.

There were linkers written, long ago, that would extract only the code
from a library that was used by a program, and the binary got pretty
compact. You got almost as good an effect as if you had compiled the
program with the shared library source. Wonder how much this would help?

People got pretty smart back when 256KB was a lot of memory.

Shared libraries are going to need mmap() or a thing like it. Is the
seg() stuff enough like mmap()? I've never tried it out. Is it worth it?
  How messy will things get once that goes in?

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-17 22:07 Bakul Shah
2006-04-18  0:01 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-18 14:36   ` Gorka guardiola
2006-04-18 15:47     ` Russ Cox
2006-04-18 14:45       ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-04-18 16:12         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 16:42           ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-18 16:46           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 16:47             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 17:41               ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-18 17:46               ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 17:55                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 18:06                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-04-18 22:37                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-18 18:54                   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 19:22                     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 20:14                       ` lucio
2006-04-18 20:34                       ` Russ Cox
2006-04-18 19:52                         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-20 21:16                         ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-04-18 20:45                       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-18 21:08                         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 21:39                       ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-18 21:54                         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 23:19                           ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-19  1:05                             ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-19 14:17                             ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19 14:31                               ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-19 15:32                               ` Chad Dougherty
2006-04-19 15:45                                 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19 15:57                                   ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-04-19 17:45                                     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19 23:56                                       ` geoff
2006-04-19 16:49                                   ` Russ Cox
2006-04-19 17:50                                     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19 17:55                                       ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-04-19 18:45                                       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-19 18:55                                         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 23:27                           ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-18 23:29                           ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-04-18 23:48                             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-19 14:25                             ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19 14:31                               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-19 15:51                                 ` Tim Wiess
2006-04-19 19:53                                 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-20 14:39                                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-20 15:50                                     ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-20 21:20                                       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-20 21:42                                         ` Dan Cross
2006-04-20 22:06                                           ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-21  3:43                                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-21  4:37                                             ` Dan Cross
2006-04-21 16:08                                               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-20 22:09                                         ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-20 23:09                                           ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-21  3:45                                           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-21  4:31                                             ` Dan Cross
2006-04-21 13:36                                               ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-04-21  4:46                                             ` lucio
2006-04-18 19:34                     ` jmk
2006-04-18 19:52                       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 20:34                     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-18 21:04                     ` Dan Cross
2006-04-18 21:11                       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 21:16                         ` Dan Cross
2006-04-18 21:21                         ` David Leimbach
2006-04-18 21:24                       ` David Leimbach
2006-04-19  2:53                         ` geoff
2006-04-19  3:16                           ` Dan Cross
2006-04-19  3:28                             ` geoff
2006-04-20 22:35                           ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-19  3:02                         ` Dan Cross
2006-04-18 20:44                 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-20  3:10                   ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-18 16:48             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 16:58               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 17:02             ` uriel
2006-04-18 17:30               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 20:21           ` Richard Miller
2006-04-18 21:10             ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-19  1:14             ` geoff
2006-04-19 12:49               ` Richard Miller
2006-04-19 13:21                 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-18 16:17       ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-04-18 19:17         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-19  0:28   ` Bakul Shah
2006-04-19  1:45     ` Russ Cox
2006-04-19  2:35 erik quanstrom
2006-04-19  3:53 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-19 19:34 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-19 19:42   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-20  1:07     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-20  2:02       ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-19 19:45   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-19 21:16   ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-19 21:46   ` quanstro
2006-04-20  1:03     ` rog
2006-04-20  6:08       ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-20 15:59         ` rog
2006-04-20  4:02     ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-19  2:47 erik quanstrom
2006-04-19  3:04 erik quanstrom
2006-04-19  3:27 Mike Haertel
2006-04-19  8:19 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2006-04-20  1:41 erik quanstrom
2006-04-20  6:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-20  1:45 erik quanstrom
2006-04-20  3:03 ` Michael Baldwin
2006-04-20  5:58   ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-21 11:34   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-21 15:46     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-21 15:47     ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-20  9:57 erik quanstrom
2006-04-20 11:00 ` R
2006-04-20 10:30 erik quanstrom
2006-04-20 13:50 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-20 17:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-25  2:02 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-04-20 10:36 erik quanstrom
2006-04-21 15:49 erik quanstrom
2006-04-25  2:16 erik quanstrom

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