On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, der Mouse wrote:

: If we could count on the kernel having symbols in-core at load time,
: any of these paradigms (/kern/kernel, /kern/kernelsymbols, etc)
: becomes a SMOP.

`Bloat.' That would be very annoying as a default behavior.

Some machines (particularly lower-end mips, m68k, vax, even a real I386...)
need all the memory they can get, and symbols take up a lot.

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