SunOS vs. Ultrix comparison

[Bruce Barnett]

In article <1991Jan23.223402.28704 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

>	   What does that mean? It means that the size of your executable
>   under SunOs is smaller than under Ultrix, but otherwise it doesn't make
>   a whole huge difference, depending on the way you run your applications.


The big difference is when you run several different window-based
applications. Sun use to link several SunView applications into one
executable, and by examining the name of the command, jump to the
proper branch of the executable. Therefore 5 different programs were
really one, and only required one copy in memory.
I don't know if this could be done with common DECwindows applications.

If you don't have enough memory to run all of the applications at
once, shared libraries can make a big difference.
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Bruce G. Barnett	barnett at crd.ge.com	uunet!crdgw1!barnett