Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[Benjamin Stuhl]

> At 10:08 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> >Dan Sugalski writes:
> > > One of the current plans is for the parser to have
> access to a list of
> > > functions that trigger autoloading modules.
> >
> >Isn't dynamic loading really slow?
> 
> Not particularly, at least not as far as I know. There's
> some extra cost in 
> finding the library and loading it that you wouldn't pay
> if you were linked 
> directly to it, but AFAIK that's about it.
> 
>                                       Dan

There's also the issue that _each_ symbol must be requested
manually and stored somewhere (in a MT-safe manner, of
course), rather than having the loader resolve everything
in one pass.

-- BKS

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