On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:42:11PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> 
> so 244K of text
> 
> compare to this:
> 
> text	data	bss	dec	hex	filename
> 13843  	368    	544    	14755  	39a3   	/bin/ls
> 
> 14KB text+the rest 230 from libc.so
> but this 230 is SHARED with other binaries. 

The arithmetic isn't *quite* that simple.  Among other things, there is
some additional space used by ld.so to store the PLT and whatnot.

Still, it's a huge win -- especially for machines with small memory or
storage.  (Can you say `hpc'?)