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Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? [message #8673 is a reply to message #8564]

Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00

pit
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In article <334AAE80.1E04@bial1.ucsd.edu>,
David Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu> writes:

> I thought this would be a good time to point out something that
> really suprised me...IDL 4.0.1 on a Sun under Solaris 2.5 took
> approximately 7MB of memory when started. IDL 5.0b takes 13MB!!
> Inflation I guess.

That also depends on what routines etc. you precompile on startup.
However, on Linux it's approx. 5MB on startup.
And the size of 5.0b is definitely a vote against it, at least for me.

Peter

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		Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 03 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: kak on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: thompson on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: pit on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: David Foster on Tue, 08 April 1997 00:00
		RE: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: mallozzi on Fri, 04 April 1997 00:00

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