Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:59:38 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:48:31PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote: >> Unfortunately, sizeof(exe + dll) == sizeof(exe) + sizeof(dll) > > Actually, sizeof(exe + dll) < sizeof(exe) + sizeof(dll) in most cases.
That's for sure. If I look at my current desktop setup, for example all xfce and kde packages depend on the same dedicated libraries. This way the applications stay really small and as much code as possible can be shared. Many applications are only 3 kB large, many others are between 10 and 100 kB. If they all used static linking, I'm afraid I would have to buy another 32 GB ssd disk only for the binaries.
