Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 12:26

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In article <9601302146.AA21808@dxmint.cern.ch>, Dan Pop
<danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

> Fredrik.Pettersson@sto1.wmdata.se writes:

> >Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:

> >>main() { for(;;); }

>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
>  1723 danpop    50    0 2312K  147K run     0:01 11.20% forever
>  1671 danpop    50    0 2312K  147K run     0:02 11.10% forever

Er, why does a one-line program like "void main(void) { for (;;); } have a
size of over 2M and a resident size of 147K??  Even if your compiler got
carried away with loop unrolling, this still seems to be a bit much.\
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

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From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 05:26:59 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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