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: 103376,364dfbdf0a113a56 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS Date: 1997/04/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237089074 References: <1997Apr15.202909.5879@news> <1997Apr21.161736.5921@news> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gautier says <<- Are RAM space and speed not indirectly concerned by the size of actually loaded blocks of EXE's or DLL's ? >> no, if you don't load part of an EXE file into memory, you don't load it. Now of course there are some systems which do not provide this kind of mapping (though nearly all do for DLL's in effect). Certainly debugging informatoin does NOT get loaded in any system I know of. So do not assume that EXE size is related to working set requirements! <<- The HD space grows, but the diskette space doesn't! >> Well if you still mess with diskettes (I barely use them any more), then you certainly will be struggling these days, though pretty soon, there should be diskettes with 100x capacity -- I hardly find it convincing that we should restrict the functionality of modern software to accomdoate obsolete technology! After all, old software does not go bad, if you are happy with yesterdays smaller software that fits on diskettes, by all means use it (I think you can even get an RR Ada 83 compiler that will run from diskettes).