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Re: Distribution terms

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zefram)
Subject: Re: Distribution terms
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:32:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: schaefer@xxxxxxx, gjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <6222.199608272020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Zefram at "Aug 27, 96 09:20:42 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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> >                      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

References:
- Re: Distribution terms
  - From: Zefram

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