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Article #13453Re: String Handling and run-time libraries
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 02:38
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 02:38
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> ... Compatibility with existing facilities
> may well constraint Sun's ability to implement shared libraries.
> Also, are shared libraries important enough to claim a substantial
> chunk of their limited development resources? ...
For Sun, yes, because their graphics libraries go into almost every
interactive program, and said libraries are *enormous*. Sun customers
are generally of the opinion that they have better uses for their disk
space (especially on small systems) than storing those libraries once
for every a.out.
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