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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:09:45 -0200
From: Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon AT kymatica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shared libraries?
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:09:40 +0200
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:

> > From: "Samuel Lauber" <sam124 AT operamail DOT com>
>  > Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:26:41 GMT
>  > 
>  > COFF has supported shared libraries for a LONG time. I think DJGPP
>  > should have shared library support.
> 
>  What for?  There could be only one DJGPP process running in each VM,
>  so the principal benefit of shared libraries--sharing code across
>  multiple executables--does not exist.  And with the ridiculously low
>  costs of today's disks, the size of the executable on disk doesn't
>  matter much anymore.

I see another use of shared libraries, the ability to add or change code
to a program without having to relink it, so called "plugins"... (I'd
personally like that very much for my compositional environment, I'm
planning to try out Stonewheel for this)
 
/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-