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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 09:24:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Niko Tyni writes ("Re: linking perl statically against libperl"):
> > If there are several /usr/bin/perl processes and /usr/bin/perl is
> > statically linked against libperl, every process has its own copy of
> > the libperl code in memory. In the case of dynamic linking, there's just
> > one copy.
>
> I don't think this is true. We use shared text executables, which
> means that every copy of the same executable loaded into memory is
> actually handled by sharing the pages between the various processes.
[...]
> So I think statically linking /usr/bin/perl will cost (in memory
> terms) at most the memory one extra copy of libperl.
Awesome, thanks for educating me!
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