On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > Has bit bloat finally set into the VAX port?
>
> For fun, I checked some generic kernel sizes for VAX.....
>
> 32V                         59528
>
> 4.2BSD                     291840
>
> 4.3BSD                     407552
>
> 4.3BSD-Quasijarus(1999)    484352
>
> NetBSD-1.2                      ?
>
> NetBSD-1.3                 865218
>
> NetBSD-1.4                1015803
>
> NetBSD-1.5                1402255
>
> Are we bloating a bit around the seams...(:+}}...
>
> Yeah, I know, it is only important for MVII critters and odd
> stray 11/730's, but my, how we have grown.....
>
> I pine for the light dainty crispness of a 4.3BSD, for example,
> especially on something as slow as an MVII or even an MV3100/10
> kind of box.
>
> What is the bloat due to, gccisms?

	Feeping creatures.

	As a test, try compiling a 1.5 GENERIC kernel with only the
	hardware/filesystems/network-protocols from 1.4 and 1.3 ...

	I would still expect it to be larger as various other features
	get added, but not quite such a difference...


                David/absolute
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