From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Why is cygwin.dll? -Reply
17 Jan 1997 01:22:27 -0800 :
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	"M DOT Carter AT gcal DOT ac DOT uk"
	<M DOT Carter AT gcal DOT ac DOT uk>,
	"'Barry Roberts'" <blroberts AT xactware DOT com>
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Barry Roberts wrote:

>etc. you have running, there is only one copy of the code.  So even
>though each .exe wouldn't grow by 3 MB if they were statically linked,
>they could EASILY take more memory at run-time.  Plus, running cygnus
>utilities from inside bash is faster because the dll is already loaded, it 
just
>has to be mapped into the address space of the new process.

The main advantage of using DLL instead of static linking, is an ability to 
replace DLL with new/patched/improved version without relinking of all 
other stuff.



Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia

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