for developer turnaround time, it is huge. we explicitly do not statically link Ardour because as developers we are in the edit-compile-debug cycle all day every day, and speeding up the link step (which dynamic linking does dramatically, especially with parallel linkers like lld) is a gigantic improvement to our quality of life and productivity.

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elteto 6 hours ago | parent [-]

A common pattern is dynamic linking for development and static linking for production-ready releases.

	▲	PaulDavisThe1st 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We considered doing both, but it turned out that the GUI toolkit we use was really, really not designed to be statically linked, so we stopped trying.
	▲	ahartmetz 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, that's a good way to do it.