The latest version is a 488K archive.
488K compressed for a hello, world application.
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Anonymous2008-12-13 23:58
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ Unlike the elementary version often seen, GNU Hello processes its argument list to modify its behavior, supports greetings in many languages, and so on.
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Anonymous2008-12-14 0:24
the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best
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Anonymous2008-12-14 1:18
>>1
GNU-Hello leverages core skillsets and world-class team synergy through Hello World to provide clients worldwide with robust, scalable, modern turnkey implementations of flexible, personalized, cutting-edge Internet-enabled e-business application product suite e-solution architectures that accelerate response to customer and real-world market demands and reliably adapt to evolving technology needs, seamlessly and efficiently integrating and synchronizing with their existing legacy infrastructure, enhancing the e-readiness capabilities of their e-commerce production environments across the enterprise while giving them a critical competitive advantage and taking them to the next level.
Now compare features.
gnu diff/bsd diff: gnu diff has a few extra options that no one ever uses
gnu grep/bsd grep: bsd doesn't support a few completely useless options (-z, -u, --mmap, --include, --exclude, --exclude-from), and some aliases for options that it does support (-d for --directories, -r for -R, --colour for --color)
gnu tar/bsd tar: bsd tar is a lot faster
gnu awk/bsd awk: gnu awk is broken unless you use the --posix option, with --posix it's just a bit slower than bsd awk
gnu sort/bsd sort: bsd sort doesn't support -g and -M, gnu sort doesn't support -R
gnu ls/bsd ls: gnu ls has a few options that no one ever uses (--si, --show-control-chars, etc.)
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Anonymous2008-12-14 5:22
>>1,9
Whoa a binary that's like 100k larger than other systems. Fuck that bloated C language, we need to return to assembly right now before binary sizes really bloat up.
Sorry for even trying to talk to you, I didn't know you were an anonix developer.
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Anonymous2008-12-14 11:00
If it was about an order of magnitude difference, I'd say binary size could matter, since it could mean the difference between keeping them on disk or cached in RAM. Or between a single read and reading multiple fragmented blocks.
Do the Gentoo peops have some OMG optimized way of doing the localization at compile time? They really ought to.
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Anonymous2008-12-14 11:05
>>17
Well, now that you ask, we have in fact. On my system it occupies exactly 0 kb of memory.
>>23 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The AWKPATH environment variable can be used to provide a list of
directories that gawk searches when looking for files named via the -f
and --file options.
If POSIXLY_CORRECT exists in the environment, then gawk behaves exactly
as if --posix had been specified on the command line. If --lint has
been specified, gawk issues a warning message to this effect.
the gnu diff man page doesn't even have an ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section.
HEY GAIZ, LET'S IGNORE THAT THE SOLE REASON FOR THAT HELLO WORLD PROGRAM IS TO DEMONSTRATE GOOD PACKAGING PRACTICES AND THE USE OF AUTOTOOLS
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Anonymous2008-12-14 15:20
>>29
use man pages like the rest of the world you flaming retards. half the time the info page is the same as the man page, including the "please download 50 megabytes of shit and view this man page in the gnu info viewer instead of man" part.
>>29 % info diff
File: libc.info, Node: Elapsed Time, Next: Processor And CPU Time, Prev: Tim\
e Basics, Up: Date and Time
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF info sux
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Anonymous2008-12-14 17:58
info is what would happen if someone took all the worst things about windows help files, man pages, microsoft powerpoint, and emacs, and combined them into a single program and format.