Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 29 Apr 2012, at 14:23, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote:
What would be usefull is to move the loads of code stored in
sysutils/runtime into a dll/so.
That's mainly useful if the external API of the RTL will ever stabilize, which
is certainly not the case today. Otherwise you create a dynamic library hell.
I had to download somebody's archive viewer a few weeks ago: first there
was his binary, then there were his custom DLLs, then there was the MS
runtime. I think it came to about 100Mb in total, which made the
equivalent written using Lazarus look pretty good- once we'd thrashed
out some smartlinking issues.
However there's a definite acceptance problem: in the past I've talked
to people who insisted in programming in C "because the customer might
be bothered about what language we use". Since ABIs (i.e. calling
conventions etc.) have settled down a lot since those days it should, in
theory, no longer be an issue: but I suspect that many old prejudices
remain.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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