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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

In order to compare X and Svgalib, I guess we have to
start by specifying what we want from each of these
platforms

Let's start with the basics, an image viewer and an image-manipulation
app. In my case, they are one and the same (Xv).

This is a Glibc2 version of BL3, and both the TinyX server and Xv
work with libc5.  1240K (glibc2) - 608K (libc5) =  632K 

libX11:  804K  (glibc2) - 580K (libc5) = 224K

632 + 224 = 856K

No window manager is needed for this application, just the xserver.

Since non-X graphical solutions don't include a window manager, this makes
the comparison more fair.

All figures except the grand totals are in KB. Shared libs have only been
included where they occur in the dependencies for Xi810.

Xi810  947
----------

ldd `which Xi810`

        libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40017000)

61

        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40028000)
174

        libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x4004b000)

31

        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40053000)
12

        libpam_misc.so.0 => /lib/libpam_misc.so.0 (0x40056000)
9

        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40059000)

1409

        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4018c000)

218

        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

661


xv  874
-------

ldd `which xv`


        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40017000)

804

        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x400df000)

113

        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x400fc000)

282

        libpng.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 (0x4013d000)

186


------------------------------------------------------------------------

5.564 MB  Total (glibc2)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

minus 856K  = 4.708MB  (libc5)

Now let's hear from the non-X side. 

Lee