On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, James Turner wrote:
>> A 486 with 4MB of RAM or even 8MB would enjoy less memory used. Granted you
>> wouldn't run the MUD on it but people may still develop on it.
>
>That is very much my point. Not so much peoples' machines, but
>instead, the servers the muds are running on. I still highly doubt,
>though that the headers will cause a problem. I'd say every .c file
>in stock ends up including maybe 80% of the headers, by line. But
>that could br wrong, just a hunch.
Including a header many times doesn't increase memory and/or executable
size. What isn't used it thrown out. I don't see your point here.
>Optimization can't always be relied on. People use old compilers,
>broken compilers, whatever. Depending on gcc to optimize code is
>ridiculous -- it does a fairly decent job on local levels, but not on
>algorithmic levels and above.
If you're that worried, don't use optimization, I doubt your MUD will raise
it's CPU used time much at all since CircleMUD sleeps most of the time.
>No, but sooner or later, you will need to upgrade.
My friend uses his XT laptop still. Great word processor.
>Circlemud should keep up with the mean.
Microsoft Windows keeps up (and pushes) the mean, CircleMUD shouldn't.
>I'm not saying we as coders should. The mean is what our machines
>currently are, which I would wager in most cases is enough to have a 20 or
>30k increase in compile-time memory ;)
I'm sure everyone with not much memory disagrees.
You have the choice of two philosophies:
* Windows, run on today's (fast) hardware, forget 386's.
* Linux, run on everything from a 386/16 with 2MB RAM to the newest PII/400
If you wish to take advantage of your faster computer, go right ahead.
We'll keep CircleMUD viable for the less fortunate.
--
George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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