Nice startup time, and just works -- especially if all you use are terminals and browser windows. Things like firefox look a little out of place, now that they are pushing their UI chrome into their own title bars.
Reading about this and similar techniques in Programming Pearls (Second Edition) by Jon Bentley left the younger me spellbound. Similar to the evolution of linkers up to mold.
Yes, and "Programming Pearls" has a nice chapter (13.8) on how doug mcilroy fit the spell dict into less than 64k (
http://code.google.com/p/unix-spell/).
Nice startup time, and just works -- especially if all you use are terminals and browser windows. Things like firefox look a little out of place, now that they are pushing their UI chrome into their own title bars.