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> Personally, I find that kind of thinking to be a relic of the past when memory and disk space were expensive and compilation took a long time. OTOH, it does
by sacado2 11y ago
> Personally, I find that kind of thinking to be a relic of the past when memory and disk space were expensive and compilation took a long time.
OTOH, it does well with the culture of making a lot of small, specialized executables rather than a single, monolithic application.
- NateDad 11y agoNot really? That doesn't seem like it has anything to do with static linking vs. shared libraries. My point was rather that a 3MB executable used to be "large" and now it's not, even if you have 100 of them.