On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 00:34:59 +0100 Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Charles Curley (12019-12-02): > > But actually having multiple copies of the > > same > > program is a waste of memory space, and possibly of swap space. > > This is why we write re-entrant code. > > This is not true with modern operating systems: code and read-only > data are shared between instances. If the application is correctly > programmed, the only variable stuff will be what needs to really be > variable, and having several instances has no extra costs. We just said the same thing in different terms. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
