Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 20 December 2011 12:21, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@...> wrote: >> Trolltech did the separation in Qt4. Their major libraries are libQtCore, >> libQtGui, libQtMultimedia.so, and libQtNetwork.so. The other libraries >> essentially add on additional functionality. >> >> The same sort of thing could be done with Qt3, but I question the value. >> If someone is building a new application, they would probably just build >> it with Qt4. > some applications would load faster and/or use less memory because they > aren't linking a giant so file and instead fewer smaller ones that they > actually need LOL. The libraries you refer to are already in memory. They don't have to be loaded again. That's what a shared library does. Even if they weren't in memory, the system would have to be instrumented to measure the change. It would be imperceptible to the user. -- Bruce