Firefox on Busybox

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Jun 13 21:33:01 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 03:26:08PM +0200, Christian Leber wrote:
> 5.) when you run something as big as X and firefox you don't have to bother
>     with busybox in the first place, it's microoptimization.

Umm, last I checked the GNU utils to replace busybox are on the same
order of size as firefox. The space difference is thus nontrivial, and
I suspect it's between 15 and 40 percent, especially if you take
measures to ensure that your X and firefox builds are nonbloated too.

Rich




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