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		wallstprog on Feb 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries i... Obligatory link to Drepper's classics: https://akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf Seems like the Plan 9 guys haven't heard of these? If done properly, dynamic linking is almost always better than static -- key word here is "properly", which doesn't always/often happen.

linksnapzz on Feb 15, 2019 [–]

Yeah, no true scotsman links his executables dynamically.

Also, this is the definitive classic take on Dr. Epper.

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.de/2009/05/tribute.html

rleigh on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

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