Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2522 mails)

[ethant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Thomas)]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Andrei Mircea wrote:

> 	I took the applications I am interested in. After reading your
> message, out of curiosity I tried xiterm-1.0 (international xterm from an
> older suse distro which includes a sunsite mirror) and compiled static and
> dynamic executables. Indeed the static one turns out to be much larger
> than the dynamic one (780 vs. 68 kbyte ; didn't you forget to strip your
> executables ?). This is normal for an application like xterm which is
> small by itself and relies heavily on the subroutines taken from outside.
> However the size consideration is only relevant for the room on hard disk
> (which did not explode here under the weight of the additional 700
> kbytes); when actually loaded in RAM, the program should take

There are places where statically linked executables are beneficial.  But
you can't possibly justify making every app on your system static?  10
times the size would make my HD explode.

Greg


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