Windows has DLLs. I think OP is asking how big it would be if everything were statically linked or didn’t use linked libraries. Like every single thing was a flatpak.
Yeah, this is what windows and osx do. Two games/apps don’t share the same dlls. The os can do some stuff to reduce memory footprint if they do, but it requires them to be the same version, effectively the same dll.
Generally apps on windows and osx do not share libraries between apps, they ship the libraries they need and run them.
Some do, but there absolutely system wide libraries installed from things like dotnet, and included in the system. Just like with Linux though some software was built against an old incompatible library and has to include it, or has its own proprietary ones.
You’re presenting it like most libraries an application will use are system libraries, and a few exceptional cases they will bundle a dll. This is absolutely not the case, the vast majority of libraries are bundled.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Windows has DLLs. I think OP is asking how big it would be if everything were statically linked or didn’t use linked libraries. Like every single thing was a flatpak.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, this is what windows and osx do. Two games/apps don’t share the same dlls. The os can do some stuff to reduce memory footprint if they do, but it requires them to be the same version, effectively the same dll.
Generally apps on windows and osx do not share libraries between apps, they ship the libraries they need and run them.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Some do, but there absolutely system wide libraries installed from things like dotnet, and included in the system. Just like with Linux though some software was built against an old incompatible library and has to include it, or has its own proprietary ones.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re presenting it like most libraries an application will use are system libraries, and a few exceptional cases they will bundle a dll. This is absolutely not the case, the vast majority of libraries are bundled.