Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 object size & long-list

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> (1) in 2-7, without DIRED support or LONG-LIST defined in Makefile,
> when i enter  g  then  . , there quickly appears a very convenient list
> of the files in my current directory, giving just the file names
> -- many people don't realise you can do this -- ;
> in 2-8, using   --disable-dired --disable-long-list ,
> the same command calls up the full `ls -l' list after  c 12 seconds ;
> i've left the corresponding lines in  lynx.cfg  commented out.
> is this a new feature, a bug or something i haven't quite got right?
I should look at that - I tested it last summer when I added the configure
option, but not recently (I thought it was still working...).
 
> (2) the 2-7 image =  1.13 M , 2-8 =  2.3 M : both without DIRED.
> this is an increase of  > 2 times ! -- have i done anything wrong?
The fellow who wrote autoconf decided everyone should have the -g option
(for debugging) on.  Some places I've overridden it, e.g., in ncurses,
but probably not here.  You can strip it and get a similar size.

I just did a test build here & my ISP's got 2.7 installed, so the sizes
(I did strip my copy):

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     ipusers    735304 Dec  4 15:11 /opt/local/bin/lynx
-rwx------   1 dickey   ipusers   1459780 Mar  3 09:51 ./lynx

and the result from 'size':

text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
706888  21612   105652  834152  cba68   /opt/local/bin/lynx
1351541 101728  126812  1580081 181c31  ./lynx

2.8 is much larger than 2.7 mainly because of the chartrans code. 
(If you compiled with color-style, that would increase it still more).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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