Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2) Having a mechanism to automagically load in chunks of executable code
> only when needed would be nice
It's not clear to me how useful this really is from an internals speed
standpoint on modern systems. It's no longer always true that increasing
the size of an executable will make it start slower or consume more
memory, and I expect that to become less true over time. And loading
dynamic libraries is actually fairly slow; static code loads faster
because it doesn't have to do the relocations and the additional disk
accesses.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
