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Static executables are a sweet spot between the craziness of dynamic dependencies (where we come from) and the idiocy of shipping a whole virtual machine for ea
by enriquto 6y ago
Static executables are a sweet spot between the craziness of dynamic dependencies (where we come from) and the idiocy of shipping a whole virtual machine for each program (where we seem to be going to). If we could just stop at that spot!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI kindof agree, but I think the real sweet spot is that system libraries[0] should be dynamically linked and everything else should be static. For Linux though, where the very concept of a standardized base system is loathed, static the sweet spot. [0] libraries that are likely to be used by a large number of applications like the GUI libraries, kernel interfaces, networking, encryption, etc.