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Ok. This makes me wonder: The original idea of shared libraries was that a computer system can save time and memory because they only need to be loaded once.
by amelius 1y ago
Ok. This makes me wonder:
The original idea of shared libraries was that a computer system can save time and memory because they only need to be loaded once.
Is that idea dead?
- deafpolygon 1y agoIf you want effective sandboxing, yeah.. pretty much. If no one can agree on which version of the library you're provided, then bring your own.
- lproven 1y agoWe should go back to static linking. With CI/CD generating new packages is trivially easy. Then we can throw out all these fancy packaging tools like Snap and Flatpak, all the fancy half-done COW filesystems like Btrfs, all the fancy hidden-delta-synching stuff like OStree, and just ship one honking great binary in a single file that works on anything, no matter what the libc so it even works on musl or whatever. Ha ha, only serious.