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staticassertionyesterday at 11:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

How much overhead is that? Also, why would that have much overhead? Things deduplicate in memory.


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pizlonatortoday at 1:46 AM

They dedup at the page level.

This isn’t that kind of duplication.

rlpbyesterday at 11:22 PM

Your apt update would still be huge though. When the dependency changes (eg. a security update) you’d be downloading rebuilds of 20 apps. For the update of a key library, you’d be downloading your entire distribution again. Every time.

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