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Subject: RE: "have you looked into rebaseall?"
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:30:21 -0000
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On 17 February 2006 19:21, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   Absolutely so.  I reckon doing a proper rebaseall that includes the
>> oracle dlls should make a noticeable difference.
> 
> This is important.  The rebaseall script only knows about DLLs installed
> via setup.exe.  So, you will need to provide a list of any additional
> DLLs that you want rebased, with the -T argument.

  Sorry for not being clearer, yes, that's exactly what I meant by 'proper'
and 'includes the oracle dlls', but I didn't go lookup the exact syntax.  

> I haven't been following this thread all that closely, but are we
> talking about allocating a single large contiguous memory region?

  Say, Brian, you are ponderin' what we've been ponderin'!  ;-)

> Because if you try to allocate it all at once then the DLL layout will
> matter, but if it's done as a series of smaller allocations then this
> should be irrelevant.

  Yep, it's the old huge-contiguous-allocation problem again.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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