> Think about it: If you were to force absolutely everything to be statically linked, your KDE app would have to include the ENTIRE KDE library suite, as well as the QT libraries it's based on, as well as the X window libraries those are based on, etc etc.
no, because we had working LTO for a long time - every KDE app would contain only the exact code that it needs, down to the individual member function. Sure, all KDE apps would have a copy of QObject / QString / QWhatever - but most C++ code nowadays is in headers anyways .
> You'd quickly end up with a calculator app that's hundreds of megabytes.
The DAW I'm working on (340kloc), which can be built statically linked to Qt, LLVM, libclang, ffmpeg and a few others, is a grand total of 130 megabytes in that case.
It's actually heavier when distributed as set of dynamically linked things (unless shipped by linux distros of course, and most of that size is useless LLVM things that I haven't found how to disable yet) :
only accounting for the dependencies I have to ship, it would be 176 megabytes - plus 17 megabytes of the actual software. I'd argue that in that case dynamic linking actually takes less disk space overall because most people don't have LLVM installed on their machines and don't need to.
no, because we had working LTO for a long time - every KDE app would contain only the exact code that it needs, down to the individual member function. Sure, all KDE apps would have a copy of QObject / QString / QWhatever - but most C++ code nowadays is in headers anyways .
> You'd quickly end up with a calculator app that's hundreds of megabytes.
The DAW I'm working on (340kloc), which can be built statically linked to Qt, LLVM, libclang, ffmpeg and a few others, is a grand total of 130 megabytes in that case. It's actually heavier when distributed as set of dynamically linked things (unless shipped by linux distros of course, and most of that size is useless LLVM things that I haven't found how to disable yet) : only accounting for the dependencies I have to ship, it would be 176 megabytes - plus 17 megabytes of the actual software. I'd argue that in that case dynamic linking actually takes less disk space overall because most people don't have LLVM installed on their machines and don't need to.