One large or two smaller executables?

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Fri, 28 Feb 92 14:00:09 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!mtrotter From: mtrotter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark L Trotter) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Keywords: binaries, executables Message-ID: <1992Feb28.185018.854@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: 28 Feb 92 18:50:18 GMT Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu I am writing a fairly large application in compiled 4gl. The question is should I write all of the application (reports,screens,processing) as one compliled executable (now about 700kb) or break it up into several smaller (<500kb) executables and RUN (spawn) them from within the main module? In other words, what is better on system resources, one 900 kb executable or two 500 executables? I am running HPUX on a HP9000/832. Thanks for any help. Mark Trotter (trotter.1@osu.edu)