From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: standalone libixp
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:50:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070701125003.GB10308@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070630174150.GS28917@kris.home>
* Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:30:41PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >Don't you want people the freedom to choose what they like best ?
>
> There is no choice involved. If you install a shared library,
> it will be used by default on most systems.
This realy depends on how the application is built.
> >There are valid reasons for using shared libraries, ie. not the
> >need to rebuild applications on library update or saving resources.
>
> Saving resources is not relevant here.
For me it really *IS* relevant. I'm working in embedded environments
with very limited resources.
> libixp is so small that the resources required to dynamically link
> it are greater than those required to statically link it.
Well, if it would be just a few pages, you maybe could be true.
But (at least at my site) the .a is about 100k and the the .so
about 90k large.
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-01 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 15:38 Enrico Weigelt
2007-06-30 16:47 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-30 16:50 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-30 17:30 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-06-30 17:41 ` Kris Maglione
2007-07-01 12:50 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2007-07-01 16:15 ` Iruata Souza
2007-07-01 10:11 ` Charles Forsyth
[not found] ` <dba1bd02516b1cfbf4119d7c567ec8e9@terzarima.net>
2007-07-01 12:42 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-06-30 16:47 ` Uriel
2007-07-01 23:22 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-07-02 0:45 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-07-03 3:50 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-07-03 4:09 ` Kris Maglione
2007-07-03 15:10 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-07-03 19:45 ` Federico Benavento
2007-07-03 20:31 ` Jonathan Cast
2007-07-03 21:14 ` Wes Kussmaul
2007-07-03 21:51 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-07-03 23:16 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-07-04 3:36 ` Iruata Souza
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