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From: dfields@radium.urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries are not necessary
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
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Date: 31 May 91 16:25:39 GMT
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From  mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta):
>Now, perhaps, it is time to show that shared libraries often increase
>memory consumption.

>If, as if often the case, we are running only one X applications, you
>lose.

If your assertion of only running one X app holds true, then you
may or may not increase memory consumption.  It depends on the
order in which objects are loaded in both the static binary and
the shared object.

However, your assertion is false for the systems which I help
build!  The environment I work in uses X-terminals and a couple
of server machines.  I currently am running 13 instantiations of
6 different X applications and there are several more people running
on these machines.

Dave Fields // Motorola Computer Group // dfields@urbana.mcd.mot.com