On 21 May 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The comparison is interesting though.  Using the size command (which
> gives the actual text and data sizes for etherboot I get.

That is quite interesting. The forthcode doesn't have the kind of size
advantage you might expect.

> Now if we could get some similiar results for other drivers..
> Are the Plan9 object files really .8 files?

yes, .8 is the plan9 suffix meaing 'x86 object'. Plan9 is basically
heterogeneous from the start, so you have different suffixes for different
architecture .o files. On the same machine you will typically have lots of
different object files floating around.

ron

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