Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 27, 2025 10:28 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Shared libraries by LtWorf
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
It's an embedded Linux system - cheap parts throughout.
But, FWIW, this also applied to big servers at a hyperscaler - the cost of processing relocations outweighed the cost of paging in a bit more from the application binary from an SSD. Systems with HDDs only benefited speed-wise from dynamic linking, systems with SSDs benefited from static linking.