Hi - > [...] > My understanding of the benefit of separate modules is that we don't > need to link all backend modules into every elfutils binary. I did some > measurements to that end: > > Dynamic backends (status quo): > 44K ./libasm/libasm.so > 380K ./libdw/libdw.so > 120K ./libelf/libelf.so > 56K ./src/objdump > > Static backends (after this series): > 44K ./libasm/libasm.so > 668K ./libdw/libdw.so > 120K ./libelf/libelf.so > 348K ./src/objdump
Assuming a dynamically linked objdump would be the same size as before, and that the libebl-* contents would only bloat libdw.so, and only by 300K, IMHO we should just go for it. - FChE
