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In article <1992Dec11.140637.22810@erenj.com>, srfergu@rufus.erenj.com writes:
> Well, shared libraries or not, I think there's too much fat in my modules.
> I've got a module that does very simple Lyon-Lamb MiniVas recording.
> I call it MiniVas. Here's the breakdown of the object files that go into it:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 srfergu  user       24332 Dec 11 08:42 MiniVas.mdw.o
> -rw-r--r--   1 srfergu  user        1356 Dec 11 08:54 MiniVas.o
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     sys        19106 Dec 11 08:55 /usr/lib/libvas.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 srfergu  user     2054768 Dec 11 08:55 MiniVas
> 
> The run unit is nearly ten times the size of the object codes. 
> 
> I only make one or two calls to things like cxInWdgtLongSet.
> 
> Obviously something other than my code is expanding this module. And it does 
> the same to every module in the distribution. Since the same size factor goes 
> into nearly every module, I'm willing to bet there's some library being 
> duplicated in every module that could be shared.
> 

I'm also concerned about the size of modules.  If you'll put an 
unstripped version of MiniVas on sgi.com:~ftp/pub, I'll take a look
at where the space is used.

thanks,
Robert Skinner

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