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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Size of shared libraries
- Message-ID: <Aug21.150406.17508@cdsac.uucp>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:04:06 GMT
- References: <5259@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <5259@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> alhy@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu writes:
- >It seems that when I make shared libraries, they're much larger than
- >an unshared version of the same library! Here's what I do in this
- >case: I take a library (the ibm blas library), extract all the object
- >files, on each of the files use nm to determine the symbols to export,
- >create an import file with all the routine names in it, then do the
- >following command on each object:
-
- This is normal. Shared libraries are larger, but you gain the space back
- real quick, as there need be only a single copy of it in memory for all
- processes bound to it.
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-
- L. Scott Emmons
- csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
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