On Wednesday 07 February 2007 02:00, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:24:22 +0000, John D Lamb wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 11:09 -0500, Rami Michael wrote: ...
This will increase file size, sometimes dramatically, but will often make the application start faster and will make it much more likely to work when copied to another system.
And will make maintenance a nightmare! If, for instance, a security bug is discovered in a library, *every* app that linked in the library statically has to be rebuilt. Contrast this with simply replacing one dynamic library.
It also thwarts the kernel's ability to share the in-memory image of disk blocks among all concurrent users of a given shared object file. This increases the demand for physical RAM and, in some circumstances, the amount of paging or swapping traffic the system generates.
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Philipp
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