On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:47:05 GMT, Gerald Nunn wrote:

Just curious if anyone's found much difference in compile times between static and dynamic linking? I tested this a bit using my terminix application and the compile times for static and dynamic linking were about the same, around 9 seconds on my laptop. The size of the executable was much smaller using dynamic linking but disappointingly no real difference in compile times.

I experience much shorter compile/link times using dynamic linking on my home machine, which is quite old (Dual core, standard HDD, 4G of RAM). On my work laptop (quad core, SSD, 8G of RAM), it doesn't make much of a difference, but the resulting executable is much smaller. If you compile in release mode and strip the executable, it gets actually quite small, almost acceptable ;)

JB