Program size, linking matter, and static this()

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:30:44 -0500, torhu <no at spam.invalid> wrote:

> On 16.12.2011 22:28, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> In short, dlls will solve the problem, let's work on that instead of
>> shuffling around code.
>
> How exactly do they solve the problem?  An exe plus a DLL version of the  
> library will usually be larger than just a statically linked exe.

The DLL is loaded into memory once.  With static linking, it's loaded  
every time you run an exe.

-Steve