From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <470cd428ca4b59ae758c764934935bf0@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <40856130.7040708@cs.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:10:52 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 636af548-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>Oracle had to build/test/ship a new version of their code every time i think they still have to test their software with the changed bit, regardless whether the library is statically or dynamically linked! indeed, i'd have thought one advantage of static linking in that case is that the thing being run is more likely to be the thing that was tested, without (say) a new malloc being substituted by dynamic linking.