From: Guillaume L. <gla...@te...> - 2009-05-17 21:39:02
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On May 17, 2009, at 20:51 , Chris Cannam wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Chris Cannam > <ca...@al...> wrote: >> Certainly so. Demand-paging executables has been standard fare as >> long as I've been developing for Unix. > > ... but don't let me stop you from testing it! You might find I'm > totally wrong: it wouldn't be the first time. Not in this case. You're right, of course. Start a program compiled in debug mode, check the process size with ps. strip(1) it, restart it : process size will be near identical. On the other hand, running it unstripped with gdb and you'll get your megabytes of symbols loaded in memory. -- Guillaume http://telegraph-road.org |