[nn3]

Who would have thought that statically linking hundreds of MB worth of binaries every build causes problems?

Maybe some of it can be fixed with a lot of engineering effort, but the fact remains that it is a bad idea to redo so much work every time.

Maybe the people who invented shared libraries had a point after all.

Of course the real problem is software and dependency bloat, but that is unlikely to ever get fixed.

[dullgiulio]

Besides the fact that static linking has a lot of benefits, shared libraries need to be linked too: just this process is called "loading" and the linker is called "loader".

Worse, this needs to happen at every executable invokation.