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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: huge executable??
Date: 2000/05/16
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> Indeed it is obvious for example that static vs
> dynamic linking, which has no effect on cache usage to speak
> of, has a big effect on executable size.

If you run multiple Ada programs (or multiple instances of the same
program) in parallel, shared libraries can decrease cache pressure if
shared libraries are implemented properly (i.e. a shared library is
loaded once and mapped to different address spaces).