Re: [RFC] Libraries usage in configure.in and Makefiles

From: Robert Collins <robertc_at_robertcollins.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:31:46 +1100

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 19:43 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 18:38 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> >>
> >> Why?
> >> A: The squid binary is topping 3.5MB in footprint with many of the
> >> small
> >> tool stopping 500KB each. A small but substantial amount of it is
> >> libraries inked but unused.
> >
> > Really? dynamically linked libraries should be <tiny>.
> >
> > -Rob
>
> In the on-disk binary itself yes ... yet they load into memory under the
> parent apps footprint.

The pages for the libraries will be shared though, so it really doesn't
matter.

-Rob

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