What is the advantage of snap over static linking?
Decades ago, static linking included only the parts of each library that an application used, and as it was not limited to position independent code, the compiler could pick a more efficient sequence of instructions. Also, when a flaw was found in a library, each application that was statically linked to it had to recompiled against the updated library instead of just updating a shared library that applications linked to at run time.
Now we have snap, developers can combine all the disadvantages of static and shared linking. Why bother?
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