You shouldn't see that much difference, at least on a system designed for static linking (modern GNU/Linux is explicitly not such a system, see http://www.akkad

You shouldn't see that much difference, at least on a system designed for static linking (modern GNU/Linux is explicitly not such a system, see http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html). There's still quite a bit of potential for interprocess resource-sharing. If you somehow managed to get a statically linked Firefox (I think it would be very difficult, given the degree to which Drepper has abandoned the idea) on a modern Linux system, though, the resource usage would admittedly probably be quite impressive.