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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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