Hi, Out of a bit of boredom (and avoiding trying to fix a VHDL problem) I decided to graph the sizes of a few of the binaries from coreutils, as packaged by debian over time (I've included fileutils/shellutils).
At: http://www.treblig.org/pics/debianbinarysizes.png you can see a graph showing ls, du, df, true, and chmod over about 10 years. The raw data is here: http://www.treblig.org/data/debiansizes.csv All of these are the Linux/x86 binary packages and all binaries are ELF, stripped, with shared libs. I've not made much attempt to analyse why things are growing; although the fun one is the size of 'true' that used to be a tiny shell script. It's a bit scary that 'true' has gone from a 395 byte script to a 22k binary in 10 years (even the first binary version I have is under 5k); I can imagine that some of the other binaries probably have more to do with system interaction (e.g. ls gaining selinux support). Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
