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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:38:09 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: small program eats lot of memory
Message-ID:  <01012223380901.01564@buffy>
In-Reply-To: <20010123113323.A99885@itouchnz.itouch>
References:  <E14KedS-000NHH-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> <20010122211309.A958@raggedclown.net> <20010123113323.A99885@itouchnz.itouch>

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On Monday 22 January 2001 23:33, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:13:09PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Ok. But shared libraries have nothing to do with saving disk
> > space..
>
> 1000 programs linked against a shared library use less space that
> 1000 programs linked against a static library.

You should read the rest of this thread.
The point is that shared libraries were not invented for
that sole purpose.

Cliff


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