Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 26, 2025 0:43 UTC (Wed) by carlosrodfern (subscriber, #166486)In reply to: Shared libraries by mb
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
> negligible
Wouldn't that depend on use case? In servers, probably not a big deal, in Desktop, I'm not sure.
>program load time
Overall larger amount of major page faults.
> What?
Being able to replace implementations dynamically, with optimizations targeted to the use case.
Those reasons and the other ones I mentioned were observations of many people when the majority of systems were built statically linked that eventually motivated a switch in the OS field to favor DSOs.