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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by nwellnhof on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:48PM (#19172986)
> Oh my, each app is going to be 20 mb bigger! This mattered 30 years ago

CPU caches aren't that big so it still matters today, at least for desktop applications.

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