From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,364dfbdf0a113a56 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier) Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS Date: 1997/04/21 Message-ID: <1997Apr21.161736.5921@news>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 236361661 References: <1997Apr15.202909.5879@news> Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Reply-To: Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Look, it is only disk space we are talking about here, nothing else! - Are RAM space and speed not indirectly concerned by the size of actually loaded blocks of EXE's or DLL's ? > Disk > space now costs as low as 6 cents/megabyte (that's the new 6.4 meg > IDE drive which costs $350 list) > > How can one get concerned over less than 25 cents of disk space. > > Well that's not quite fair, notebooks are more limited, but even there, > 2 gig disks are getting pretty standard, and 3 gig disks are now available. - The cost of disk space is secondary, the important is that you should put more files on disks with more space. It's not the case with such a ``Microsoft'' philosophy that the programs should grow in the same proportion as the available disk space (and be as slower as the processor is faster): there is no progress at all ! - The HD space grows, but the diskette space doesn't ! G.