Andrew Halliwell <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> David Kastrup wrote: >>>> Dynamic linking delays the act of copying, but it remains an >>>> essential integral part of putting the program to its intended >>>> use. >>> >>> The difference between static and dynamic linking is that in >>> static linking the copying occurs as part of making and >>> distributing the program, and in dynamic linking the copying >>> occurs, if it does, as part of running the program. This is not >>> an irrelevant detail; it's an essential difference. >> >> It isn't. The essential copy is the copy in the computer main memory, >> and that is the same whether you link dynamically or statically. > > Wrong. If you link statically, the copy exists within the code itself. > Any disc, printout, CD, flash memory stick that contains the program ALSO > contains the statically compiled portions of the library. > > With dynamic linking the library exists seperately on the computer and is > only loaded into memory when it is required on execution of the program. > >> Whether you deliver a script which does the static linking, or whether >> you call the dynamic linker makes no difference. > > It does, y'know.
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