Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:37:52PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> Somehow I doubt that you used today's version of bash (which I bet
> is a lot bigger and more memory-consuming due to new features).

Comparing bash from woody and sid, respectively:

-rwxr-xr-x root/root    511400 2002-04-08 21:07 ./bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    677184 2006-10-22 15:55 ./bin/bash

RSS of woody's bash is 4528 kB on my system; 4888 kB for sid's bash.

So, unless you want to claim that 162 kB bigger and using 8% more memory is
"a lot", you should probably be less careless about your betting.

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