6 Dec
2004
6 Dec
'04
11:52 a.m.
John Goerzen
sensibly share libraries between apps. Anyway, disc is cheap.
Memory not so much, though. One advantage of having something in .so form is that every instance of every application that uses it shares the same in-memory image of the code.
Well, a 5 Mbyte [1] overhead isn't really that much, IMHO. You'd need to run a lot of (different; if they're the same, the text will be shared) applications to get any measurable benefit. Eventually, it would be nice to have dynamic linkage, but I can see why it isn't a priority. -kzm [1] On my Linux system, the overhead seems to be less than 2 Mbyte. 5 Mb is the figure used by the OP. -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants