At 10:01 15/07/02 +0100, you wrote:
Vanilla Linux is never going to be as fast because of the single binary that is Navaho.
Huge monolithic binaries are common with Windows because processs creation is an expensive and time consuming operation. This does not apply to unix type systems. Indeed a large monolithic application could end up slower than several smaller applications especially if the large one has a large RSS.
Staroffice 5.2 vs 6.0 is a case in point, one big BIN was slow in 5.2 but 6.0 is much faster. However if the 1 Binary is big, but not very big, then it can be faster than calling other binaries. Take as little as is needed from each separate binary melt it into one large single binary with a total size much less than that of the combined smaller binaries and you should end up with a faster and more compact system. Rob