Re: Making things smaller (was) familiar extension for software in ram

From: <Olav_at_kvittem.no>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 23:49:41 +0200

jg_at_pa.dec.com said:
> That will save 1.1 megabytes (uncompressed) of libraries, and some
> RAM.

this reminds me of the early linux days when we tried to optimize diskspace
with compressing filesystems on small laptop disks
- tcx - selfextracting binarys and a transparent
block compressing scheme that I don't rememer the name of.None of them very
good or easy to use. compressed librarys with zlib.

jg_at_pa.dec.com said:
> There are some others we need to convert to some other toolkit (e.g.
> gtk or fltk) or convert to python, or get replacements for.

I'll give it a serious thought - any idea of the size of the job for mixer ?

regards
Olav
Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 12:49:36 EDT

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