22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
1:44 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
A self-imposed limit of 16K held in v1, and was quite fully utilized.
When the iernel was rewritten in C, the limit (perhaps larger by then)
influenced the C compiler. More than one optimization was stimulated
by the need to keep the kernel in bounds.
16k words or 16k bytes? Given some of the other reported sizes I'm guessing
it's bytes.
Warner