09-18-2006, 12:45 PM
If you want a library to be linked dynamically then you cannot determine which functions will be called at compile time, therefore you need to compile all of them. If a library is statically linked then you may be able to remove some unused functions. The virtual memory system in modern operating systems means that only the parts of a dynamic library that you are actually using are likely to be loaded into memory.
Like na_th_an said its not the code that takes up huge amounts of space, its all the other stuff. Lots of things in computer science have a memory space/execution speed tradeoff. Hard disk space and ram are cheap and plentiful these days so it often makes sense to go with the latter.
Like na_th_an said its not the code that takes up huge amounts of space, its all the other stuff. Lots of things in computer science have a memory space/execution speed tradeoff. Hard disk space and ram are cheap and plentiful these days so it often makes sense to go with the latter.
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