Any memory benefits with installing "standalone" libraries?

[jbashara]

Hey guys, every month it seems I learn a little more and more about LUA addons from a layman's point-of-view, and I've noticed that many addons are offered with "nolib" alternatives.

Aside from disk storage, are there any benefits to installing the standalone libraries and using the nolib version of addons (or removing the embedded library if there isn't a nolib release)? The option has to exist for some reason; I'm just trying to figure out why.

Does it conserve in-game memory usage or clock cycles? Is there a read-write decrease, or a decrease in the amount of times an addon calls to that library?

Basically, what's the benefit? Or is it simply that is saves a few Kilobytes here and there, since there aren't duplicate libraries in all of your addon folders? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the transition.

Thanks,

Josh