chris@mimsy.UUCP (03/27/87)
In article <26395@rochester.ARPA> ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap) writes: >On our Vaxen running 4.3: >text data bss dec hex >261120 581632 0 842752 cdc00 /usr/staff/bin/tex >261120 581632 0 842752 cdc00 /usr/staff/bin/latex Note the lack of `bss': TeX is 261K of code, about 81K of random data, and just about 500K of `memory'. Pascal environments often lack a decent heap allocator, so alas!, TeX has its own, which allocates out of an array of variant records. This memory region can be made smaller, but then you are stuck with less memory until you recompile---and that is not a task to be done lightly! (Well, okay, with the Pastel compiler from LLL, it only takes five minutes on a Vax 8600 with 16M of real memory.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) UUCP: seismo!mimsy!chris ARPA/CSNet: chris@mimsy.umd.edu