Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 14:22:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>,
        "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Dynamic Linked Libraries for djgpp?
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Furthermore, I'd guess that on DOS,
> a system without a way to keep the shared libraries loaded into memory,
> you'd get *much* longer load times when the whole C library had to be loaded
> from disk each time you ran a file. A disk cache would help, but how
> much?...

Disk cache is all that you need on DOS.  DOS doesn't have a problem of
multiple programs that use the same shared library running at the same
time and exiting asynchronously.  So the shared library can be loaded
when the first image that need it is invoked, and unloaded when it
exits.