> > >I could be a real lose on 4mb sun3/50 systems...

> > Do you *know* it would be a real lose on a 4MB system, or are you just
> > assuming?

>My 3/50 swapped *A LOT* when I compiled pine (which passes -pipe to the 
>compiler in its build process).  Letting the compiler use an honest /tmp 
>on-disk filesystem helped a bit...

OK... I was just curious because I didn't know if anyone has actually
sat down and proven that -pipe takes up substantially more RAM than
without.  (I wasn't trying to say you were wrong... ;-) And, does it
make the situation any worse than mfs /tmp on a 4MB machine (where mfs
is also gobbling up some of the very small free memory pool)?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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