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The Saturday 2007-03-03 at 17:11 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> John R. Sowden wrote:
> > A while back this thread mentioned Borland's 'Smart Linking' in one of its
> > Pascal compilers, but not the current (at the time) C compiler). As this
> > process only makes sense to minimize program size, therefore decreasing
> > load
> > time, and probably run time, as more RAM is available, it this process
> > being
> > used by today's current compilers?
> >
>
> I don't know, but considering how few applications are statically-linked
> these days, is there really a big payoff? It was different when the
> target was a DOS program, since those usually had to carry all their
> libs along with them.
Correct, but still, looking at the size of some binaries, it is obvious
that they are statically linking lots of things. It does not make much
sens to put into external libraries things that nobody else is going to
use.
The dynamic libraries can not be trimmed.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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