'6000 performance issue

[Michael G. Beirne]

In article <1990Nov5.100227 at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> marc at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger) writes:
>
>A dumped gnumacs will be next to impossible on a '6000.  The unexec()
>included in the distribution assumes a fixed text load address so that
>offsets will be correct when the dumped gnumacs is exec'd.  As I under-
>stand things, the '6000's loader does not always load executables at the
>same address, so gnumacs will die horribly.  So take heart that all the
>files loaded from loadup.el load quickly.
>
>These are my opinions, not IBM's etc etc etc
>
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This sounds like a performance problem to me. What happens when 5 or 6 people
start up Frame on a RS/6000 and the whole program is in paging/memory area
for each user instead of just the data and bss area separate for each user?

mikebe at laitnite.i88.isc.com
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