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

by arexxbifson 6/14/2024, 7:30:50 PM with 2 comments
  • by kristianpon 6/15/2024, 2:54:16 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 9659on 6/15/2024, 1:22:33 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.