Re: Fun with xterm window titles, or Yet Another golf challenge

[Dmitry Kohmanyuk Дмитрий Кохманюк]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:13:42AM -0700, Robert G. Werner wrote:
> Absolutely.  And memory is getting cheaper and cheaper.  Might be cool
> to have some sort of application server running though.  An interp
> that keeps running and then executes jobs submitted over some sort of
> connection.  

Some numbers...

as for memory prices - www.pricewatch.com shows $27 for 512M of PC133 memory.
That's 5 cents per MB.  Now if it's multi-user system, it still matters.

Perl footprint is much smaller than 5MB - on my x86 FreeBSD 3.5 system, it's under 2M:

unicorn:~> perl -e 'kill STOP, $$'

Suspended (signal)
unicorn:~> ps u | perl -lne 'print if ((1..1) || /perl/)'
USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
dk   74688  0.0  0.5  1528 1012  p3  T     1:14��   0:00.01 perl -e kill STOP, 
unicorn:~> 

And /usr/bin/perl can (and should) be linked with -lperl - which means all processes
on a system share code.

About socket connection - one can just use Unix domain socket with rw------- 
permissions.