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Re:App sizes are out of control by verytrivial on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:11AM (#14909594)
> dynamic linking's main motivation was to eliminate duplicate code and reduce code size

I'm pretty sure the main motivation is/was to allow patching of dependencies independently from applications. Very popular shared libraries might save space overall, but that is a secondary effect.

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Re:App sizes are out of control by maxxxxx on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:26PM (#14912661)
When I started out the main motivation was to get install sizes down. At least on Windows patching never really worked and ended in "DLL hell".
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