Re: Memory a Mud takes up

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 10/31/97


On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Sean Butler wrote:

>        The mud I am working on currently uses about 15-17meg, however,
>        it has a reasonably large wilderness.  One thing that no one
>        offered as a way to cut down on some of the overhead is to compile
>        the mud without the -g option (debugging info).  This will reduce
>        the amount of memory it consumes to some degree.

That'll reduce the size of the binary file which is typically 2 megs or
less already (800k for stock bpl12).  Taking out debugging information may
drop that to 500k (350k for stock bpl12) but that's still hardly anything
compared to 35 mb.

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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