Re: LYNX-DEV Is this the cost of doing the web?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> My current lynx 2.7.1+fotemods+ncurses+color, compiled with -g (since
> when aborts do occur, not having the debug version was annoying) weighs in
> at 3.5 meg on Solaris 2.5.1.
that's a little high (I see 3.2M) - but stripped, it's running ~900k.
 
> Is lynx just going to continue growing like this?  
It's likely that some of the larger chunks can be made optional (if you choose
all of the options, that's a different problem).

> I am not sure what alternatives there are in a cross platform development
> environment such as lynx is currently operating.  However, the larger lynx
> grows, the slower (on my system anyways) it is to start up.  At the point
> at which it's faster to use some other tool (chimera for instance is 400k)
> usage will begin to slack off.
are you also compiling chimera with -g?

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Thomas E. Dickey
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