Shared libraries are not necessary

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1991May21.170435.22610 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>Note that I also said "development with X."  Guess what:  those libraries
>aren't shared, it works out to about 1.5Mbytes *per X application*, and,
>with a dozen or so people doing that, that *is* a considerable amount of
>memory.

While Sun's shared libraries are far from perfect, they have certainly
made X development here a lot less tedious for another reason.  The
time to link a binary has dropped from about a minute to about 10
seconds, due to not having to write out the huge a.out file.

[Yes, I know, it's all the fault of NFS.]

-- Richard
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