david@eng.sun.com (verve, enthusiasm, and gusto) (05/25/90)
In SunOS 3.x, most of the SunView tools are linked together into two large merged binaries: /usr/bin/suntools and /usr/bin/othertools. If you run multiple "programs" which are merged into a single binary (e.g. selection_svc, sunview, shelltool) they only use up one text table slot. On a limited memory system you can get a big performance improvement by making a custom "toolmerge" binary of the set of Sun and non-Sun tools you normally run. (You have to trim down any non-Sun tools with large data/bss first.) David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA david@eng.sun.com