On 2012-02-02, at 2:47 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
Embedded systems had limits of 4MB, 8MB or 16MB when
these patches were done.
Those systems also tend to ship with a very carefully culled set of binaries. Perhaps
someone reading this with access to that type of system could do some measurements of a
static vs. shared build of one of those embedded systems. A well designed system without
library bloat can pump out some pretty skinny static binaries.
--lyndon