On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:51:56PM -0000, Mark Berry wrote: > Is there any reason that the effort couldn't focus more on a 'statically' > linked phylosophy rather than having everything dynamic and cross-linked. I > know that this dramatically increases the size of the applications > (especially when you are linking GTK or QT onto all your applications...) > But for most of the server side apps are not so huge. Apple appears to be > taking this approach with OSX.
This would mean going backward many years in terms of OS features. Shared libraries are a big win, for memory usage, disk storage, performance, and upgradeability. -- - mdz
