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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by pjmlp on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:56PM (#24618718)
Solved by bytecode distribution formats that AOT/JIT compile, and yes there are those for C and C++ as well.
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by sesuximo on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:28PM (#24620364)
Sorry if I’m being daft but can you provide a link? Something that will dynamically do LTO with shared libraries
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by pjmlp on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:04PM (#24621203)
GraalVM/Sulong and CLR devirtualization.
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by saagarjha on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:33PM (#24619167)
JIT compilation is not feasible on a number of platforms.
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by pjmlp on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:44PM (#24619957)
True, but AOT compilation at install time like on watchOS or mainframe language environments is.
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