Re: Structure of large link libraries in f95

Jan Vorbrüggen wrote:
... I spend minutes each day on a laptop
with 512 MBytes of memory waiting for the stupid Windoze paging system to
page in those bloatware applications.

I said 'modern virtual memory system'... :)

That's even true for Thunderbird and
Firefox, which are relatively light weight - "only" 56 MB and 7 MB, respec-
tively. Of course, the enormous sizes of those MS Office files that swamp
the file system cache contribute to this.

Those apps are doing FAR more than simply paging in a few LAPACK routines
when they start up. Forking off processes, loading lots of data, setting up
frame buffers and rendering large images, loading spyware from the net...

Walt
.