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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: overlaying
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:35:32 -0000
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Anthony.Appleyard writes:
> That raises the subject again: what is the progress on
> run-time overlaying for djgpp?, for when a big program has a 
> big subroutine that is called sometimes but not very often. 

In general I would say that this just isn't a worthwhile or
useful thing to bother with. In a virtual memory environment,
the DPMI server is already perfectly capable of swapping out
some rarely used subroutines to make room for other data, and
it can do this far more flexibly than any kind of manual
overlay scheme that you might implement yourself, so why 
bother reinventing this functionality?

	Shawn Hargreaves.