insightful post > Pardon if this has come up before, but what about the greatly > increased time taken to launch a shared-lib program? That's quite
i just built a trivial executable on linux x86-64 with a main that calls exit(0) as its only action. the executable is 722905 bytes (which is larget than any plan 9 executables, save refugees spin an gs). so one can see how too much code can beget unattractive work arounds. contrast /386/bin/sleep, a non-trivial executable, at 4422 bytes on my system — 100x smaller. - erik
