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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries are not necessary
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
Message-ID: <4752@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 May 91 17:02:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: skye.4752
References: <201@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May17.053735.2123@kithrup.COM> <210@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May21.170435.22610@kithrup.COM>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <1991May21.170435.22610@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>Note that I also said "development with X."  Guess what:  those libraries
>aren't shared, it works out to about 1.5Mbytes *per X application*, and,
>with a dozen or so people doing that, that *is* a considerable amount of
>memory.

While Sun's shared libraries are far from perfect, they have certainly
made X development here a lot less tedious for another reason.  The
time to link a binary has dropped from about a minute to about 10
seconds, due to not having to write out the huge a.out file.

[Yes, I know, it's all the fault of NFS.]

-- Richard
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