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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144800378 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i26uhINNsd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <31457584.2475@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i4s5f$igc@solutions.solon.com> <3146E324.5C1E@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i9ld6$m2v@rational.rational.com> <4iah20$p7k@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ifqbg$b32@fred.netinfo.com.au> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu> organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu> RLS@psu.edu (Robert L. Spooner, AD3K) writes: >In , dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >>"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware." >> >>Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory, > >Of course, the only reason all that memory is needed is because of memory >leaks in the X-window system. All those millions of lines of C code... Are you sure you actually understand the meaning of the expression "memory leak"? Methinks not. X is big because it's big, not because it contains memory leaks (it usually doesn't). If you're looking for memory leaks, have a look at Perl 4 and (at least) the first releases of Perl 5. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland