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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 10:46:25 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what's the advantage...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GHP.4.21.0005161044420.487-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3920AB51.22F54FCA@tdnet.com.br>

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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:

> I got surprised when i compiled two versions of the same program, and
> the one statically (-static flag) linked use less memory than that
> dynamically linked.

What sort of difference were you seeing?

> How can one program that were static linked uses less memory that the
> same one done using the default linking?

I'd suspect that any (small) differences you're seeing could be
attributed to mmapped .so files needing to be aligned with page
boundaries.


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