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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
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On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > However. ELF is analogous (with the exception that you don't
> > have one or two binary apps), and nothing is stopping you from
> > building everything statically, or still using .a
> 
> Actually, if libraries hadn't been grown that extremly fat,
> but instead using small tailored ones and moving the redundant
> complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at
> all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can
> startup much faster).
> 
> 
> cu

startup time is not dependet on the size, harddisks are way too fast - but 
symbol resolution. More libs, more work to resolve them, longer startup times.