Python proper on Linux, `.a' vs `.so'

[Francois Pinard]

[Gerhard Häring]

> Does Linux share .so's across different applications?  If not, all you
> save is some hard disk space.

I thought that Linux shares it, but the truth is that I do not know.

My naive feeling is that smaller the executable, smaller the footprint
of the "pure" segments of physical memory.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard