How much overhead is that? Also, why would that have much overhead? Things deduplicate in memory.
replyThey dedup at the page level.
replyThis isn’t that kind of duplication.
Your apt update would still be huge though. When the dependency changes (eg. a security update) you’d be downloading rebuilds of 20 apps. For the update of a key library, you’d be downloading your entire distribution again. Every time.
replyOh, well yeah, statically linked binaries have that downside. I guess I don't think that's a big deal, but I could maybe imagine on some devices that are heavily constrained that it could be? IDK. Compression is insanely effective.
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