libraries

Posted Aug 12, 2005 14:03 UTC (Fri) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: Our bloat problem by dmantione
Parent article: Our bloat problem

Actually, as far as I know a well written lib won't have much non-read-only static data (so it can be shared efficiently), and should incur only a very small memory overhead for any unused portions. If I recall correctly unused parts of the library aren't even read from disk.

There are many things to complain about with shared libraries, but their on-disk size is not one of them unless you're building embedded systems. If you are, you can build a cut down version of most libraries quite easily.