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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by jen20 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:30PM (#32462662)
> the whole world never saw a real world problem, not the UNIX comunity nor Microsoft and it's Windows design

"DLL hell" [1] was absolutely a thing. It was solved only by everyone shipping the world in their application directories.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell

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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by naasking on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:43PM (#32462769)
Not to mention dynamic linking is brutally slow. I don't think people even realize how many cycles are wasted. The notion that dynamic linking never had any real problems and still doesn't is totally false.
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