Re: let's get small

["Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost>]

At Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:03:00 -0600,
David Young wrote:
> 
> Do you have any ideas what can be done to these huge programs in the
> base system to make them small yet reasonably effective on an IPv4/IPv6
> router/bridge?
> 
>         * wpa_supplicant
>         * hostapd
>         * dig / host

$ file /usr/bin/host /usr/pkg/bin/host 
/usr/bin/host:     ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
for NetBSD 3.1, statically linked, not stripped
/usr/pkg/bin/host: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
for NetBSD 3.1, statically linked, not stripped
$ size /usr/bin/host /usr/pkg/bin/host
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1418885   44896   42236 1506017  16fae1 /usr/bin/host
 250325    9956  300440  560721   88e51 /usr/pkg/bin/host
$ /usr/pkg/bin/host -V
Host version HOST-20070128, BIND-8 resolver version 20030124, API version: 
19991006


Sadly my version of host does not yet even have the option of doing very
much with IPv6.


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