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In article <415q72$7j6@blackice.winternet.com> Jeff Dege,
jdege@winternet.com writes:
>: Look, for example, at QuickTime. QT 2.0 comes out with new improved 
>: blitters and all QT apps run fast---doen by dynamic linking through 
>: Component Manager. 
>
>   And if the QT libraries had been statically linked, you'd have had
>to relink the apps to gain the advantages, or if a provider did't provide
>a mechanism for relinking its app, you'd have the provider ship you
>a new executable.
>

And for those of us who live in the real world, how exactly do you 
propose this happens? When I install one copy of QT 2.0 on my system, all 
my QT-aware apps beenfit. How do they all beneify on your system?
How do the newly linked against static QT 2.0 Word Perfect and Adobe 
Premier and Excel and Filemaker all get distributed? There's no central 
place I can go to download them all, not to mention the people without 
network access. Who want's to keep track of which of their apps have been 
relinked against the new QuickTime, or Sound Manager, or QuickDraw GX or 
QuickDraw 3D etc etc. How do you distribute these new 
versions---certainly not as freely ftpable binaries. But if they are 
delta, against what do they delta---the base version, or the version 
using QuickTime 1.6, but QuickDraw GX 1.1.1, and Sound Manager 3.0? To 
bad if your last version was updated by a delta to QuickDraw GX 1.1.2.

You seem unaware of the vast gap between "theory" and reality. 
For heavens sake, in theory we can do all the computation we want on a 
Turing machine. By your logic, anyone working to produce anything more 
sophisticated is wasting their time.

Maynard