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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by indrora on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:38PM (#40542437)
The issue is memory. Every library in an app image has a unique memory space and so you have a bunch of copies of sometimes very large libraries sitting in memory rather than one copy from disk mmapped into memory and page duplicated all over the place.
Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by eklavya on Saturday June 01, 2024 @12:28AM (#40542874)
Linux has had support for not doing duplicate pages for a long time now. I am forgetting the name of the feature but essentially this duplication is a solved problem.
Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by e12e on Saturday June 01, 2024 @12:42AM (#40542938)
For different minor versions and builds of libraries?
Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by raverbashing on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:57AM (#40544598)
This is basic paging and CoW (Copy on Write) behaviour. I agree, it's mostly a non-issue
Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by rcxdude on Saturday June 01, 2024 @07:15AM (#40544711)
That's only the case if the libraries loaded are identical, It won't work with slightly different versions of the same library (unless the differences are small and only replacements, so the pages remain aligned between different versions), and that case is very unlikely to be solvable
Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by eklavya on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:11AM (#40545462)
The parent comment doesn't talk about different versions and I wasn't either.