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Re: Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems



On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:24:40AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 05:47:16PM -0400, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > > Once libposix reaches maturity, I will certainly consider linking
> > > applications I wrote myself against libposix. Applications linked against
> > > it will probably use less memory
> > 
> > Why would they use less memory?
> 
> Since they don't link against a large library.

Which is a ridiculous argument given what the S in .so means. As soon as
at least one always running program on your system uses glibc, you want
to only use glibc if you want to save memory. It's simple as that.


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