Linus writes: "Yes, it can save on disk use, but unless it's some very core library used by a lot of things (ie particularly things like GUI libraries like gno

Linus writes: "Yes, it can save on disk use, but unless it's some very core library used by a lot of things (ie particularly things like GUI libraries like gnome or Qt or similar), the disk savings are often not all that big - and disk is cheap." How much savings? Has this ever been measured? Just curious.