-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 131072 Aug 21 1996 /usr/bin/awk
-r-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 245760 Jun 10 1996 /usr/bin/grep
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 262144 Jun 10 1996 /usr/bin/sed
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 544768 Jun 10 1996
/usr/contrib/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root nms 822232 Aug 25 13:58
/opt/local/bin/perl5.00401
Hey guys,
Comparing byte sizes on disk means nothing here... these things
may or may not have been stripped. Any symbol tables included
in the byte counts you see above won't affect process start-up time.
The "size" command will give a better handle on what will be
needed in starting a process. The three segments may each have
their own overhead, though, and the relative contributions of those
segments to startup time may well be system-dependent.
Cheers,
Stan