> > > ... writing a small focus module should be not harder than
> > > 10 lines of perl ...
> >
> > Of course, using a small-footprint window manager like FVWM to
> > launch a Perl script is a bit like using a firecracker to set
> > off an H-bomb :)
>
> Any FVWM module usually is event based and sleeps all the time.
> An FVWM module written in perl may consume less memory then FvwmPager.
>
> So I don't see your point. Probably I just don't understand a slang. :)
Point is, Perl is *huge* (last I heard). If most of the size is
in the text segment, and some Perl process is already running, it's
possible that the incremental size of an additional process is not
all that big.
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Received on Wed Aug 14 2002 - 11:21:58 BST