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From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Subject: Re: Making (Sun) Shared Libraries of Widgets
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Date: 14 May 91 23:29:25 GMT
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    The X consortium got that wrong.

Or perhaps Sun got the design wrong. :-)

The problem with putting data in the .sa file is that you significantly
increase the number of ways in which binary-incompatible changes can be
made to the library.  You also need to export a fair number more functions
that could otherwise be static (giving programmers more chances to play
games they shouldn't play :-).  The difference in memory consumption
however is, as stated, considerable.