Re: lynx-dev Lynx lite

[David Woolley]

> > Somewhere in the mists of time I recall discussion of libraries
> > and dynamic linking as memory savers.  Is this of any help in
> 
> It is my understanding that this only decreases the size of the
> physical binary which sits on the disk.  The image loaded into
> memory at run time is the same??

It can actually increase the memory use because the data areas used by
all of the shared library members are in the address space, and although
only active pages will be allocated memory, they are likely to contain
data from unused functions.