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Re: I need Help with the A3000!

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 1990 00:06
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In article <RIMAJPUZ.90Jul27102316@watsol.uwaterloo.ca> rimajpuz@watsol.uwaterloo.ca (Rick I. Majpruz) writes:
> With shared libraries the object code can be loaded at runtime.  And a
> given piece of object code is loaded only once no matter how many
> applications use it.

Well, with a minimum of one copy per client node. And the application on
the client is still responsible for managing update events, menus, and so
on. Must be fun in a compute-intensive program.

> But by compiling with sharable libraries,
> the executable is only 48K.  This compares with 32K for the stdio `hello
> world': apparently Sun O/S uses 16K segments in the executables.

So the stdio "hello world" would be smaller if it didn't use shared libraries?
What an odd result, but I suppose it makes sense.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000!
Message-ID: <6142@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 4 Aug 90 00:06:35 GMT
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