From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA01998 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 06:33:28 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA27667; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:33:33 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:33:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608272032.WAA08763@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Distribution terms To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:32:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: schaefer@nbn.com, gjb@moa.cs.duke.edu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <6222.199608272020@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Aug 27, 96 09:20:42 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"4iRLA3.0.Am6.Skr8o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2088 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > I do not know how much is the ovehead caused by a big > >executable. When zsh is used as a scipt interpreter on a demand-paged > >system only the parts necessary run a script will be loaded so it may not > >give any real improvement. > > There's not much speed improvement, and actually loading a module > separate from the executable will cause a penalty. This penalty won't > be a problem unless it is incurred on every invocation -- we should > definitely avoid doing this. I meant memory usage and startup time improvements not speed imporovements and only for scripts which do not load any modules. Adding module support will increase the size of zsh because the binary should carry the symbol table but that should not affect startup time of memory usage. Zoltan