Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 25, 2025 12:17 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Shared libraries by zyga
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
I think that's pretty much exactly what keithp had in mind with "To avoid just stuffing everything in boxes and using virtual dispatch for all operations". I read his comment as fairly explicitly referring to the "You can have (strong ABI AND expensive runtime) OR (limited dynlib ABI AND compile time concrete implementation of parametric types to obtain fast runtime)" dichotomy.