I'm not sure what you mean. Absent some deduplication wizardry by the OS, if I have 60 processes using the "same" statically linked copy of libfoo, that's 60 co

I'm not sure what you mean. Absent some deduplication wizardry by the OS, if I have 60 processes using the "same" statically linked copy of libfoo, that's 60 copies of libfoo's instructions and static data fighting for cache and real memory. Dynamic linking & decades-old virtual memory technology cull that to a single copy.