Re: is glib too bloated?

[Brandon Casey <casey nrlssc navy mil>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 03:26 -0400, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Hi Brandon,
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:44 -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> > > My point is _not_ that these features are not useful, just
> > > that glib would be a better library with a more strict focus and useful
> > > to more developers if some of this functionality were moved to a
> > > separate library.
> >
> > Don't forget that the more libraries you have, the longer the dynamic
> > linker will work to resolve all the symbols, and consequently the longer
> > it will take for each application to start.
>
> And each shared library consumes at least one page of private
> per-process data memory.

The concern is organizational rather than with absolute minimal memory
consumption or program loading speed. The goal is to have as few separate
libraries as necessary to organize the components according to function
and ease library use.

-brandon