Sujet : Re: Linux 6.11
De : dg (at) *nospam* chaos.rocks (Diego Garcia)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 21. Sep 2024, 16:53:10
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:27:49 +0000, Diego Garcia wrote:
Probably 99% of commercial software is built with this philosophy.
That's why a simple text editor on Microslop Winblows can be 300Mb.
Let's contrast this with the quintessential Unix editor "cooledit," which
is a total GUI program with extensive features:
ls -l /usr/local/bin/cooledit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342400 Sep 25 2021 /usr/local/bin/cooledit
We need also the shared library:
ls -l /usr/local/lib64/libCw.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 597768 Sep 25 2021 /usr/local/lib64/libCw.so.1.0.0
So, 342400 + 597768 = 940168
Thus, for only 940 Kbytes on GNU/Linux we have a text editor that surpasses
most, if not all, Microslop text editors that require 300X the code.
Whew! If that's not an indictment of the junk Microslop I don't know what would
be.
Keep in mind that cooledit has syntax highlighting, compiling, debugging, email,
and a LOT of other fundamental stuff built in -- all within less than a megabyte
of code.
That's GNU/Linux power!