There was a time where this debate was bigger. It seems the world has shifted towards architectures and tooling that does not allow dynamic linking or makes it harder. This compromise makes it easier for the maintainers of the tools / languages, but does take away choice from the user / developer. But maybe that’s not important? What are your thoughts?
From my understanding, unless a shared library is used only by one process at a time, static linking can increase memory usage by multiplying the memory footprint of that library’s code segment. So it is not only about disk space.
But I suppose for an increasing number of modern applications, data and heap is much larger than that (though I am not particularly a fan …)
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disk is cheap and it’s easier to test exact versions of dependencies. As a user I’d rather not have all my non OS stuff mixed up.
I misread disk as dick
From my understanding, unless a shared library is used only by one process at a time, static linking can increase memory usage by multiplying the memory footprint of that library’s code segment. So it is not only about disk space.
But I suppose for an increasing number of modern applications, data and heap is much larger than that (though I am not particularly a fan …)
The gain in RAM are not even guaranteed. See my other comment
Look at how bloated android applications are