>Megabytes more? Megabytes more in total, or megabytes more per binary? > On this disk, about 15% of it is executables, and I have a lot of crap in my executa

>Megabytes more? Megabytes more in total, or megabytes more per binary? > On this disk, about 15% of it is executables, and I have a lot of crap in my executable directory and just deleted a lot of junk data. Is there any study on how this might change if we moved from dlls to statically linking everything? > no one's seriously proposing that core libraries that everyone uses be statically linked If we agree that shared libraries are fine for the common case, and there are n number of existing solutions for distributing applications with tricky dependencies, what are we even talking about in this thread? :\