forsyth: > the trouble with shared libraries is that they seem at first quite > reasonable, and indeed at a fairly abstract level, > it seems irrational to be more opposed to them than any other form > of sharing, such as shared text, but the mechanics of linking and > sharing (especially on current processors), and of configuration > control, have so many hard facts that the simplicity of the original > is quite lost. having experienced several variants, i find it now > saves time just to adopt the irrational position from the start.
in fact i believe that a large part of the reason i can compress the root image so well is that my super-big-lz pass finds the shared code in all the binaries and gets rid of most of its footprint. (then i hand the result to bzip2 to finish the job.) so i don't even think shared libraries would even help much in this context. uriel: > P.S.: Unsurprisingly http://kencc.sf.net is nowhere to be seen in the SoC > site either... *sigh* hey, who knows, maybe in a couple of years more > we will have a website and a tarball for kencc! there is nothing at all stopping you from setting up http://kcc.sf.net and populating it yourself. listen to dan cross. russ
