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How big is your operating system?
by scroot 7y ago
How big is your operating system?
- claudiawerner 7y agoSmaller than it would be if it were written in Smalltalk instead of C. (I'm kidding, I like Smalltalk, but the comparison to an OS doesn't do much when we're discussing the size of very small bits of code).
- jecel 7y agoActually, having written operating systems in C, Objective-C and Smalltalk I can say that unless we are talking about something MS-DOS like in simplicity then the Smalltalk OS will be much smaller than the C one. The unstripped binary for the Little Smalltalk 3 virtual machine is 55,229 bytes on my Linux computer and the systemImage file, at 102,100 bytes, includes mostly things that would not be needed for a "hello world" program.