Comment on single binary executable and dlls

sznio@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Additionally, I can’t really understand why are dynamically linked libraries so popular and how on earth anyone who ever had a “.dll / .so not found” error thinks this is a good idea.

  1. You can load a DLL once and all programs can share it, saving memory. That mattered more back in the 90s
  2. You can update one file and have the patch apply to all programs

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