Could be. But if it were a really big issue, I'd think that the minimum process size could be reduced, which might be a useful change in any case. After all,

Could be. But if it were a really big issue, I'd think that the minimum process size could be reduced, which might be a useful change in any case. After all, on the first Unix system I used, 64K was the MAXIMUM process size... The point is that there are always tradeoffs, whose resolution is affected by how important an issue is perceived to be.