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unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?



>>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Erb <erb@inss1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

Olaf>  the system is more
Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
Olaf> down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the
Olaf> price we pay for new features..

Is it generally the case?  I read somewhere (was it the ELF-OWTO?)
that there should not be much difference betwen aout and elf in term
of speed.  

I have only 8Mb ram on a 486-66.  If performance will suffer a lot, I
think I 'll defer upgrading to 1.1 until I get a better computer.

--
Billy C.-M. Chow \\ billy.chow@eng.ox.ac.uk \\ Debian Linux


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