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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by TomSwirly on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:32AM (#27016114)
> As an intern at a data science company, I noticed that a certain closed-source shared library we were using was calling the same trigonometric functions with the same arguments over and again. So, I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to "monkey-patch" libm with caching and that reduced the running time of the data pipeline by 90%.

This is a very edgy edge case, though.

> How much disk space would linux userland require if every binary was to be statically linked?

Megabytes more?

I have never been on a project or a machine since the 70s where executables took a majority of the disk space. On this disk, about 15% of it is executables, and I have a lot of crap in my executable directory and just deleted a lot of junk data.

Also, no one's seriously proposing that core libraries that everyone uses be statically linked.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by alex_smart on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:44AM (#27016216)
>Megabytes more?

Megabytes more in total, or megabytes more per binary?

> On this disk, about 15% of it is executables, and I have a lot of crap in my executable directory and just deleted a lot of junk data.

Is there any study on how this might change if we moved from dlls to statically linking everything?

> no one's seriously proposing that core libraries that everyone uses be statically linked

If we agree that shared libraries are fine for the common case, and there are n number of existing solutions for distributing applications with tricky dependencies, what are we even talking about in this thread? :\

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by gpm on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:15AM (#27025341)
> Is there any study on how this might change if we moved from dlls to statically linking everything?

Drew Devault did an informal one https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html

TL;DR - not at all substantially.

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