From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 6 21:11: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from netau1.alcanet.com.au (ntp.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DEF37B41A for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au [139.188.23.1]) by netau1.alcanet.com.au (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11588; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:10:59 +1100 (EDT) Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37641) with ESMTP id <01KDZYLXD2VKVFN0J2@cim.alcatel.com.au>; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:10:49 +1100 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g175Au303666; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 16:10:56 +1100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 16:10:56 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: problem w/ dlopen(); bug or feature? To: John Polstra Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020207161056.A3626@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 20:24:33 -0800 (PST), John Polstra wrote: >If you're talking about efficiency, it doesn't matter very much. It's >a rare program that loads more than, say, 20 shared libraries. We have an application toolchain which basically puts each object into its own shared library. One application wound up with 209 shared libraries. I personally think that this is taking "modularity" past the extreme, but it does work. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message