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In article <6100@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
   Do does NeWS, *without* forcing the application to duplicate 300K of what
   should be server code. I know about the X/NeWS bit, but would it be too much
   to ask to be able to dump the X half of it if you don't want it?

With shared libraries the object code can be loaded at runtime.  And a
given piece of object code is loaded only once no matter how many
applications use it.

I have been using the Athena widgets on the Sun/4 which has sharable
libraries.  The `hello world' program using the Athena widgets is only a
half a dozen lines of code but is 560K when all the library object code
is loaded by the cc linker.  But by compiling with sharable libraries,
the executable is only 48K.  This compares with 32K for the stdio `hello
world': apparently Sun O/S uses 16K segments in the executables.

I haven't done any programming on the Amiga yet, but I am told that it
too has sharable libraries.  Hopefully the person porting X to the Amiga
will take advantage of this fact.  So my question to people using X on
the Amiga is: how big is the executable of the hello world program
(using, I assume, the Motif widgets)?  Is it a tiny 50 bytes or so?
Could you post the X hello world for the Amiga so that I can compare it
to what I'm using now?