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From article <JOHN.92Nov9101505@sekrit.WPI.EDU>, by john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel):

> (Clarence Dold) writes:
>> ... experience in moving code from a Motorola
>> 68040 to the Motorloa 88100 RISC set shows a substantial change in the
>> requirement for disk space for executables, as well as run-time memory.
>> I recall a comparison of ~20% for like code.

> It's been pretty good here (we're a Beta site) for compiled binary
> sizes.  You really don't notice shared libraries for most code.  Where
> it really shines is for very grahics intensive code.  We had one guy
> who went from a 1.2 Mb on disk program to 90K on the Alpha.  

I think we're talking about two different animals at once.  Going from
non-shared libraries to shared can be a major win, especially if your
X11/Motif libraries are shared (which they are not on Unisys Motorola boxes).

The other issue is the size of the executables (perhaps just .o should be
compared) for a CISC machine verses a RISC machine.  

In joining this thread, I am assuming that the VAX, non-alpha that we are
talking about is a CISC machine.  It appears that OSF verses VMS might also
be part of the conversation, but on a different thread.

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