Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers...
by 0xdeafbeef on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:40AM
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Also, won't most of the lib be removed due to dead code elimination? And used code will be inlined where applicable, so nothing to dedup in reality
Outside of embedded, this kind of reuse is a very marginal memory savings for the overall system to begin with. The key benefit of dynamic libraries for a system with gigabytes of RAM is that you can update a common dependency (e.g. OpenSSL) without redownloading every binary on your system.