On Wednesday 07 February 2007 02:00, Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:24:22 +0000, John D Lamb wrote: > >On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 11:09 -0500, Rami Michael wrote: > > ... > > >This will increase file size, sometimes dramatically, but > >will often make the application start faster and will make it much > > more likely to work when copied to another system. > > And will make maintenance a nightmare! If, for instance, a security > bug is discovered in a library, *every* app that linked in the > library statically has to be rebuilt. Contrast this with simply > replacing one dynamic library.
It also thwarts the kernel's ability to share the in-memory image of disk blocks among all concurrent users of a given shared object file. This increases the demand for physical RAM and, in some circumstances, the amount of paging or swapping traffic the system generates. > ... > > Philipp Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
