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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Shared libraries (Was: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance)
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 21:37:06 EDT
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> > if this causes a disk-space problem, you might have to link with an
> > unshared version of the library.
> 
> How can this solve the disk space problem? You'll have *at*least* one
> copy of the old version around, linked to the unconverted application,
> and possibly many copies.

No, you have only a copy of the routines from the old version that the
unconverted application *actually uses*.  If the difference between the
increase in size of the application due to having a copy of those routines
bound in, and the size of the old library, is large enough, this *will* save
disk space.
	Guy Harris
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