[Gllug] mallinfo

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:11:30PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2007, t. clarke spake thusly:
> 
> > Thanks for that further info Nix.
> >
> > On that basis I won't bother to recompile the process in use.
> > If the 150k is effectively spurious I need not worry about it.
> 
> Simply starting a process allocates 100Kb or so of storage for the
> i18n stuff done by the glibc startup code.
>
> You can shrink it, but only by switching to uClibc or something (and
> then of course you lose binary compatibility, i18n, and so on).

Heh, not in a _FORTH_ process because we don't waste time
with bloaters like libc and ld-linux.so.

Rich.

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