Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2488 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.


> ...
>
> Philipp


Randall Schulz
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