Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:30:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <199811022030.MAA01244@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:24:43 %2B0100." <25312.910038283@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >> > >> Sigh, If Satoshi hadn't yanked tcl out, we could have used that... > > > >You must mean tcl4 or even earlier, then... Newer versions of tcl are > >somewhere around 300kB. Besides, you talk about 100k mark as of tcl object > >limit, whereas Mike was talking probably about the whole bootloader > >size, right? > > If you par down tcl to "just the language" it is about 80k still I > think. That doesn't get you the bytecoder though. One of Forth's undeniable advantages is that its internal bytecoded representation is pretty damn compact. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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