>For the record, I dont think glib is oversized or bloated at
>all, I dont think its size is even a concern worth considering
>even in embedded world, that being said...
FYI
Here is part of an "ls -la" off an ARM embedded device. (ARM being the x86 of embedded devices)
190260 Mar 14 2007 libdbus-1.so.3.2.0
193344 Mar 14 2007 libgmp.so.3.4.1
210240 Mar 14 2007 libcroco-0.6.so.3.0.1
227516 Mar 14 2007 libssl.so.0.9.8
241984 Mar 14 2007 libgobject-2.0.so.0.800.6
262660 Mar 14 2007 libcairo.so.2.2.4
275464 Mar 14 2007 libid3-3.8.so.3.0.0
300272 Mar 14 2007 libgcrypt.so.11.2.3
314996 Mar 14 2007 liboil-0.3.so.0.1.0
323176 Mar 14 2007 libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
360500 Mar 14 2007 libparted-1.7.so.1.0.0
370200 Mar 14 2007 libfreetype.so.6.3.8
549928 Mar 14 2007 libglib-2.0.so.0.800.6
623180 Mar 14 2007 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.8.1
650416 Mar 14 2007 libasound.so.2.0.0
Libgobject is big but not lots of things are bigger.
--David Moffatt.