in reply to Huge perl binary file
None of the comments so far have made it clear that the thing being dynamically loaded is the perl library itself; i.e. the 16K thing is just a little wrapper that calls perl library routines to create, execute and destroy a perl interpreter. The vast bulk of the code for the perl interpreter resides in libperl.so, which may or may not be statically linked into the perl executable.
Dave.
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