On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:54 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:09:49PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > > Now the choice of 464kB or 4528kB on a desktop where you're actually > > using the shell for interactive things is probably not a big deal, > > personally I'd never use dash, posh, or busybox (except for rescue > > purposes) on a desktop (or server, for that matter) other than for > > scripts. > > Actually it is. In desktop (low memory PC; 64M or less), you open > several terminals to work efficiently. It's quite natural to have > 10-20 open. > > Count 20 x bash against some other alternative shell and the > consumed memory becomes apparent. Somebody needs to explain to Jari the concept of a shared text segment. Thomas
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