[Cryptography] Are dynamic libs compatible with security? was: Apple and OpenSSL

[Bill Frantz]

On 4/21/14 at 7:02 PM, billstewart at pobox.com (Bill Stewart) wrote:

>It lets you use O(N) RAM instead of O(N*M), for the running programs,
>and also O(N) disk instead of O(N*D) for the D programs on disk.
>In either case, you don't actually need M or D copies of the 
>entire GNOME libraries, just the parts of the library 
>collection each program is using, but it's large enough to 
>matter even today.

I'm not sure the memory advantage of sharing library code 
overcomes the disadvantages described elsewhere in this thread 
with modern systems. Even when I consider my Raspberry Pi 
system, it has 512 meg of memory divided between the video card 
part of the SoC and the Arm processor portion. If I have 50 meg 
of shared library, that's less than 10% and might be a cheap 
price to pay for software stability.

Does anyone have any information on how much sharing actually 
takes place?

Cheers - Bill

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