On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

Not using static requires the compiler to emit
initialization code for any use of the routine
that otherwise would only be done once.

If the code isn't performance critical, I think we can afford.
Otherwise, we have to reserve the memory used to save the static data,
if we don't specify it as initial data.

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