What can be done to reduce executable size?

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> Most definitely. I consider dynamic linking to be a necessary evil which 
> should
> not be used unless you have to. I _much_ prefer having my programs 
> completely
> self-contained. The less that they rely on in terms of external libraries 
> the
> better. Sure, there are plenty of cases where dynamic libraries are 
> necessary
> (e.g. plugins), and the fact that they generally reduce disk space 
> consumption
> is useful, but it's _so_ nice to not have to worry about the exact 
> versions of
> everything else installed on the system.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Nobody cares about disk space this time. Imagine x00 applications run in 
memory with
exact copy of libc.

Oleg.