From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:15:11 -0300 From: "Iruata Souza" To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Announce: standalone libixp In-Reply-To: <20070701125003.GB10308@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070630153814.GA17008@nibiru.local> <20070630164716.GQ28917@kris.home> <20070630173039.GB1435@nibiru.local> <20070630174150.GS28917@kris.home> <20070701125003.GB10308@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8eb8cf68-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/1/07, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Kris Maglione 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. > not to troll on you, enrico, but this thread remembered me of one on the openbsd-tech list. the situation was: someone proposed a -l option to openbsds ifconfig just to list network interface names. ifconfig already shows the names and much more info so the -l behaviour can obsviously be achieved with shell scripting. at some point in the discussion someone said about -l being a good point for embedded since it lets you cut off sed, awk and that sort of utility with the same space argument. this is what i answered http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=115103143012683&w=2 iru