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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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>.... if you don't mind bloating your application:
>
>% ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
>4224 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a

Whoa. Bet its creator compiled with -g -O2 rather than -g0 -O2. ANd with
-static instead of with <dynamic>. Yay look at this:

22:06 io:~ # l /usr/lib/libxml2.so -L
#SUSE# -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1145089 Apr  6  2004 /usr/lib/libxml2.so

4x smaller!



Jan Engelhardt
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