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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:22:26 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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insightful post

> Pardon if this has come up before, but what about the greatly
> increased time taken to launch a shared-lib program?  That's quite

i just built a trivial executable on linux x86-64 with a
main that calls exit(0) as its only action.  the
executable is 722905 bytes (which is larget than any
plan 9 executables, save refugees spin an gs).  so
one can see how too much code can beget unattractive
work arounds.  contrast /386/bin/sleep, a non-trivial
executable, at 4422 bytes on my system — 100x smaller.

- erik