Chris Adams wrote:
$ ls -l x-dyn x-stat -rwxr-xr-x 1 cmadams users 2816 Jun 6 08:38 x-dyn -rwxr-xr-x 1 cmadams users 459492 Jun 6 08:38 x-stat
It's probably time to switch OSes when a NOP program can't be made smaller than this and most developers don't even think we have a problem... Linux has become fat and slow over the years.
I don't forsee a static executable being smaller than a dynamic executable in the real world. It is possible that somebody could hand-build (e.g. no gcc, ld, etc.) such an executable, but that doesn't really count (since that isn't done in the real world).
Somebody actually *could* make small static binaries: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html (for the lazy, the binary is just 45 bytes and even *does* something useful ;-) -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
