[H-GEN] Reducing kernel memory footprint?

[Chris Baird]

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> I know this is not what you wanted and the challenge is sometimes
> the source of the thrill but it could be possible to get more memory
> ? What brand is the laptop? A lot of 386 laptops are dying and the
> memory is often not transferrable so it might be possible to get a
> reasonable upgrade.

I've already looked.  It's a Compac Contura 3/20, and considering how
well it already works in only 2M, the cost of an upgrade isn't really
justifiable.  (I could get a 586 laptop for about the price it'd take
to boost this thing to 4M.)

Currently gcc does work-- modulo a 50-line program taking about 2
minutes to build.  With VM performace being non-linear, if I could
just tweak out another ~60kB I could probably halve that. (This closer
I get to the gcc RSS..)

-- 
Chris,,

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