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pretty cool! in isolation looks awesome! i'm still a little curious about the impacts increased executable image size, especially in a complete system.

if all the binaries are big, does it start to crowd out cache space? does static linking make sense for full systems?






The kernel will only load the parts of the binary you actually run, and can drop the disk cache for those parts that haven't been ran in a while.

So more than the absolute size of the binary, you should worry about how much is actually in the 'active set'.




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