On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > However. ELF is analogous (with the exception that you don't > > have one or two binary apps), and nothing is stopping you from > > building everything statically, or still using .a > > Actually, if libraries hadn't been grown that extremly fat, > but instead using small tailored ones and moving the redundant > complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at > all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can > startup much faster). > > > cu
startup time is not dependet on the size, harddisks are way too fast - but symbol resolution. More libs, more work to resolve them, longer startup times.