Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
Uncompiled code is not loaded into ram because it is only text. The exception is when you are editing it..! Unless I've been compiling all these years for no reason...:) Code must actually be compiled into a binary and called in one way or another to be loaded into ram. If you mean compiled, unused code can be loaded into ram, that is correct, but there is nothing the user can do about that - it's a function of the application: not all compiled code gets ran at a given time, because perhaps not all functions are being utilized at any given moment - depends on the program. On 01/22/06 03:47:12, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. Well, the code _can_ be loaded, without being executed, and therefore taking up RAM. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
Perhaps I misunderstood the poster - unused, uncompiled code cannot be loaded into RAM, unless you editing it. Unused compiled code can, but that is beyond the realm of the user. If the developer has functions that are not ever being used, then that's the developer's fault. On 01/22/06 03:55:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. That's not correct. It offers the potential of being executed and thus, it offers the potential of being a security threat. Thus it is better to NOT have the code around at all. Alexander Skwar -- You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
I forgot interpreted code - maybe that's what the original poster meant. I am used to only working with compiled binaries only. On 01/22/06 08:47:38, Paul S. Bains wrote: Perhaps I misunderstood the poster - unused, uncompiled code cannot be loaded into RAM, unless you editing it. Unused compiled code can, but that is beyond the realm of the user. If the developer has functions that are not ever being used, then that's the developer's fault. On 01/22/06 03:55:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. That's not correct. It offers the potential of being executed and thus, it offers the potential of being a security threat. Thus it is better to NOT have the code around at all. Alexander Skwar -- You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. On 01/21/06 19:34:02, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:48:24AM +, b.n. wrote Ehm. Perhaps it's me being dense but: who cares about unused code? Ok, you have unnecessary, unused code sitting on your HD: where's the problem? You never see it. A year ago, I was using a 1999 Dell (128 megs RAM, 450 mhz PIII) as my main machine. I still have it around as my emergency backup. KDE runs (would you believe crawls) painfully slowly on that machine. Using blackbox plus fbpanel, it's perfectly OK for most stuff, except that it drops frames on internet TV and working with 2560x1920 digital photos in Gimp is leisurely. On my AMDK8, in 32-bit mode, it screams. Old DOS games run faster under DOSBOX than they did on a 10 mhz AT. I have the original floppies for Chessmaster 3000. It does *NOT* run under Wine. At work, they were throwing out some old stuff, including real Windows 3.1 floppies. I installed Win3.2 under DOSBOX, and it runs Chessmaster 3000 just fine! -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
