Re: Compiled program size when /INCLUDEing consts and prototypes

I won't disagree that it's slightly irrational...

But the way to change that mindset is to show them it's irrational.

OTOH...

True story (that I've posted in another thread)

Have some vendor code that allocates 2MB for a particular structure in
memory.

2MB you say, pwfft...that's nothing now-a-days you say.

True enough, except that the way our code used the vendor code, 11 of the
2MB objects are being created.
And that program happens to be our main menu program, so it starts and
doesn't end.
So the 22MB is allocated and never returned till the job ends.
And we can have 10,000 active users at a time...

Well hey, that's 220GB of "stack space" aka temporary storage...which helps
explain why our temporary storage usage is at 1.6TB...

And by the way, we don't have 100s or 1000s of programs...we have over
10,000.

Now if I can say, yeah, they might go up by 4K or 8K, that's no big deal.

But if unused PRs & CONSTs start costing me 128K, or 512K or 1MB...that's
still no big a deal.

But I need to be able to say it's not going cost 1GB a program.

Since I don't understand where the cost is coming from, I can't say that.

Charles



On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/16/2017 3:56 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

What are you afraid of?

I've had colleagues like Charles has, too.

They count the semicolons in a document;
To convert them to commas,
To save on the cost of toner
but alas periods are cheapest of all.

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--buck

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