On 3 Apr 2001, Lars Gullik [iso-8859-1] Bjønnes wrote:
> I don't really buy into the size argument.
5MB stripped versus 2MB stripped. Compile time on a dual processor 128MB
machine that is at least 5 times longer (no swapping). And that was
months ago I measured that, now we have a compile time that is about 3
times longer using lyxstring than it was at that time and greater use of
things like vector<string> so I expect even worse results now.
SGI's <string> is way to big, way to slow at compiling and leaves a huge
footprint in memory leading to slower runtimes.
I'll have to make time to do a LyX Benchmark on it. Maybe the speed
arguement will be more convincing.
BTW, why is saving 2MB of executable size not a reasonable arguement when
saving less than 300 bytes per dialog is?
Allan. (ARRae)
