[lmm]

Static binaries are bad design as soon as a library has a security flaw. Remember when there was a double free in zlib and Apple had to release a 1.3GB patch to update everything that linked it in statically - and even that only fixed the problem for Apple-official programs, not for anything the user had installed?

[SixSigma]

recompiling all of plan9 takes about 15 minutes

[lmm]

Well yeah, but plan9 has so little code because it doesn't really do anything. Recompiling any consumer-grade system takes much longer.

[4ad]

Actually recompiling Plan 9 takes about 60 seconds on my current Thinkpad.

[SixSigma]

A 15x speed up in a few short years, how delightful.