Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))

[Chris Siebenmann]

jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes (or at least I think
he does, in a quoted article:
| It is my impression that the Unix industry has, in general, come to
| agreement on the idea that shared libraries are a good thing, simply
| because they make more memory available to the user while having little
| or no negative side-effects.

 Don't forget "if implemented carefully and well". Unfortunately, it
seems dangerous to rely on this happening -- compare the startup
times of the same application linked statically and with shared
libraries on SunOS for a drastic illustration (SunOS also seems to
have problems fork()ing dynamically-linked programs, but I don't
have a handy test program to check this again).

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