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You might want to have a look at this:
https://drewdevault.com/dynlib
Nice link - it's good to see some hard data when most of the discussion around this is based on anecdotes and technical trivia.
That's misleading though, since it only cares about one side, and ignores e.g. the much faster development speed that dynamic linking can provide.
Nothing prevent you to use dynamic linking when developping and static linking with aggressive LTO for public release.
True, but successfully doing dynamically-linked old-disto-test-environment deployments gets rid of the real reason people use static linking.
Thank you so much. I read this when it was written, and then totally forgot where I read those information.
Can we get weighted by size?