Eliminating static binaries (Was: Unwanted RPM dependencies)

[Denis Leroy]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:51:46PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:52:41PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>>>
>>>> - /sbin/ldconfig (yes, even this one!)
>>> I am not sure, but wouldn't that be a bit dangerous? What would be the
>>> gains?
>> Space.  And speed.
> 
> Are you sure? For little apps, linking dynamically leads to a loss in
> performance in both size and speed.

That's a very questionable statement, and may only be true under very 
unusual conditions (such as: the linked dyn libraries are never shared 
with other executables).  I don't see how the run-time execution could 
technically be slower, outside of the start-up time.