[ On Sunday, March 18, 2001 at 12:58:48 (+0100), wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: why /bin and /sbin static
>
> > Disk space saving is obvious. The other points are more subtle and I would
> > not bet on any overall figure without good measurements.
> 
> because more code are shared there is less code in memory=better work on
> less memory.
> 
> please count just size of very-often-used programs - sh, mv, ls,
> init, etc...at least 500kB saving in MEMORY

That's a fallacy.  Static binaries also (completely) share their text
segments with every instance of themselves.

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