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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:16:37 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9base ports to unix
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> I did so, because for writing rc scripts, which is my favorite
> scripting language already, it sucked to be dependent on dynamically
> linked bloat binaries from GNU. I measured that a simple sleep call to
> the default sleep program of Debian consumes about 2MB memory. Since
> sleep might be rarely used, the problem of GNU test still occurs,

I suspect you are confusing VM footprint with memory footprint.
In the case of /bin/sleep, presumably all the shared libraries=20
were already in memory and being used by (shared with, if you wil)
other programs.

Russ