How large do FlagShips executables get?
Depending on the kind of linking (statically vs. dynamically), FlagShip’s executables may get quite large, approximately 2-3 times the size of the equivalent Clipper executables (when statically linked). This is because of the native 32-bit (or 64-bit) code compared to the 16-bit P-Code produced by Clipper. But it does not matter because of the way that Unix handles memory. Up to 2 Gigabyte executables may be used if your system is correctly configured. You may also use dynamic libraries on systems where this is supported to drastically reduce the memory used. Also bear in mind that du to the way Unix manages memory, for each person that uses another copy of the program, only additional data space is used, and another full copy of the program is NOT copied into memory. However, dynamically linked executables are much smaller, typically some hundreds KB only. Dynamically linked applications shares common libraries (*.so), similarly to *.DLLs in Windows. The size of the executable depend
