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From: keller@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jeffrey M. Keller)
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Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 30 May 90 06:36:30 GMT
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In article <21667@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
>In article <3886@darkstar.ucsc.edu> keller@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jeffrey M. Keller) writes:
>I suspect the difference is whether you are using dynamic libraries or
>static libraries???

Yes, of course.  But surely shared libraries are a legitimate means of
conserving resources?  True, the libraries do still have to be stored
and loaded... I suppose one could define an "effective size" which would
still be rather large.

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