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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by ori_b on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:05AM (#13984042)
That's equivalent to static linking, but with extra runtime overhead. You can already efficiently ship updates to binaries with something like bsdiff or cougrette, so the only reason to bundle shared libraries in an archive is for LGPL license compliance, or for poorly thought out code that wants to dlopen() itself.
Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by amenghra on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:58PM (#13988887)
Upgrading a library that has been statically linked isn't as nice as a shared lib + afaik the OS doesn't reuse memory for static libs.