On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > startup time is not dependet on the size, harddisks are way > > Assuming you're using an harddisk (or another fast-enough > medium) at all. > > > too fast - but symbol resolution. More libs, more work to > > resolve them, longer startup times. > > Exactly. And that wouldn't be needed with static executables.
no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything everytime a security bug is found. Or some other bug fixed. Oh - and didn't you just complain about bloat? Nothing means more bloat than static binaries.