Amaya vs Netscape sizes (Re: compiling with libc5)

[Noel Maddy <ncm@biostat.hfh.edu>]

Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu> wrote:
> Also, as an aside, Amaya 1.0b edits HTML, includes support for Netscape
> plug-ins and some kind of Java support, and it weighs in at 1.2MB (dyn.
> linked).  Netscape 4.0b6, dynamically linked, is about 8MB. Go figure.

That's not quite the whole story, though.  Amaya grows an awful lot 
when you run it.  I'm guessing it's because Amaya uses Thot?

(Netscape 3.01, Amaya 1.0b)

(size)

text	data	filename
3756712	737456 	/usr/lib/netscape/netscape
2218094	162856 	/usr/local/lib/Thot/LINUX-ELF/bin/amaya

(ps -u when first run)

  VSZ   RSS  TT STAT  START   TIME COMMAND
 7712  4144  p0 S     11:56   0:07 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape 
13728  4236  p0 S     11:57   0:03 /usr/local/lib/Thot/LINUX-ELF/bin/ama
ya

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