restingly, these techniques also helped reduce compilation
times by ~50%.</p>

<p>
Another very powerful technique for reducing the size of shared
libries is <a href="../apps/soreduce/README">The Shared Library
Reduction (<CODE>soreduce</CODE>) tool</a>.  <code>soreduce</code>
also benefits from the techniques listed above and should give
results comparable to static linking.  In fact, when deploying multiple
applications, use of shared libraries with <code>soreduce</code> will
result in smaller overall foo