Re: is glib too bloated?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:26 -0400, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:44 -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> > My point is _not_ that these features are not useful, just
> > that glib would be a better library with a more strict focus and useful
> > to more developers if some of this functionality were moved to a
> > separate library.
> 
> Don't forget that the more libraries you have, the longer the dynamic
> linker will work to resolve all the symbols, and consequently the longer
> it will take for each application to start.

And each shared library consumes at least one page of private
per-process data memory.

> 	Xav

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