RE: enormous executable

| OTOH when you start using and reusing larger libraries, like | Gtk+, the waste accumulates, and it's possibly you don't need | to run too many GTK+HS programs before you see performance decrease | due to memory exhaustion. On Linux and probably most Unixes, the text and data segments of the executable are loaded page-by-page into memory on demand. So having a lot of unused junk in the executable doesn't necessarily increase the memory used, either real memory or swap space. I think it's basically harmless providing you're only running one instance of the program on the machine. J