Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:15:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <200011110315.eAB3Fp909237@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:57:45 PST." <200011110257.eAB2vj034258@vashon.polstra.com>
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> But to keep things in perspective, saving RAM isn't really the main
> advantage of shared libraries. Their value lies in other areas. They
> save a lot of disk space; they allow bugs to be fixed in many programs
> at once via the installation of a single repaired library; and they
> provide the flexibility of run-time modules ("plug-ins"), which are
> used by more and more software packages these days.
It would be interesting to know whether the speed overhead (if any) for =
PIC code is offset by the improved cache behaviour as well.
-- =
=2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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