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SGI Internal Memo: IRIX 5.1 40% slower than 4.0 (1993)

by arexxbifs on 6/14/24, 7:30 PM with 3 comments

• by kristianp on 6/15/24, 2:54 AM

  And example of bloat from the memo:

  > The news reader "xrn", starts out small, but leaks memory so badly that within a week or so it grows to 9 or 10 megabytes, along with plenty of other large programs.

  Amazing that 10MB is tiny by today's standards and that was reached only through a memory leak!

• by 9659 on 6/15/24, 1:22 AM

  History repeats itself. Note the agonizing over memory. They were targeting a 16 MB machine.

  We have the same problem. Ever try running linux on a 4GB machine? It naturally desires 16 GB nowdays.