Why is GNU/Linux so Bloated?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
>  If a process
>    is linked against several libraries all but one need to be
>    relocated to other free addresses,
No, this statement is very far from the truth. I have worked quite a lot 
with DLLs, and very rarely saw the linker message saying that two DLLs 
require overlapping base addresses. I'm not sure whether base addresses 
are allocated randomly or something else is at work here, but collisions 
are not that common.

What you did neglect to count, however, is the size of the runtime library.

Also, there may be differences in the executable size that do not 
translate to final in memory size, and it's not clear which -Os is 
trying to minimize.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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