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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Tom Roberts <tjroberts@lucent.com>
Cc: Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: newlib, uclib
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 18:57:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007061657.SAA21598@denx.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:26:33 CDT." <39649719.6A828478@lucent.com>


In message <39649719.6A828478@lucent.com> Tom Roberts wrote:
>
> Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch wrote:
> > In order to build a commercially successful product I have to reduce the footprint of the system.
> > Having a quick look at the files showed me, that the largest files are the libs (libc.so.6 = 4M) ... as u all know.
>
> Initially I also thought I would have to strip down the libraries
> to reduce their footprint. But then I realized that Linux is a demand-
> paged system, and only the pages which actually get used will be
> loaded into memory. In our case only memory is an issue, the disk
> space required is not important. So making libc include _everything_

You have a disk, then.

Ruedi is probably on an embedded system, loading a compressed  initrd
image from Flash into a ramdisk.

Both flash and RAM are resources which get tight all too often.

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-06 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-06 13:29 newlib, uclib Ruedi.Hofer
2000-07-06 14:26 ` Tom Roberts
2000-07-06 16:57   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2000-07-06 14:59 ` Pete Buechler
2000-07-06 15:14   ` Frank Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-07-10 17:48 Eric Vaitl

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