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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by lrem on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:37PM (#24150449)
You can't deduplicate if your 200 applications are using 20 minor versions times 50 mixes of compile flags. You're lucky if any two share the same output.
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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by SigmundA on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:20PM (#24150976)
If your apps are using 20 different minor revisions and 50 different compile flags they prob can't share those libraries anyway? At least if some parts are the same they will dedupe at the block level even if files are different.
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Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI" by lrem on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:03AM (#24155150)
Indeed, you can't share in that case. The work of the distributor, as described in the article, is to make them share by unifying all those and requiring libraries to have stable ABI.
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