On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:54:16PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > that's often quoted as a consequence, but in practice, > not that i've seen in ... what is it now? ... at least six or > seven different systems. i think the trouble is that to get savings > that make the pain worthwhile you still need various forms of > discipline, but with shared libraries, people are even less concerned. > and RSS continues up.
I think shared libraries are often times misunderstood. I once knew someone who thought that a context switch was less expensive using shared libraries than without. - Dan C.