On 2011-12-19 19:09, torhu wrote:
On 19.12.2011 16:08, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:30:44 -0500, torhu<no@spam.invalid> wrote:
On 16.12.2011 22:28, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
In short, dlls will solve the problem, let's work on that instead of
shuffling around code.
How exactly do they solve the problem? An exe plus a DLL version of the
library will usually be larger than just a statically linked exe.
The DLL is loaded into memory once. With static linking, it's loaded
every time you run an exe.
I thought we were talking about distribution sizes, not memory use. But
anyway, DLL's won't do a lot as long as people don't have a whole bunch
of D programs installed.
It could be useful for a package manager. Theoretically all installed
packages could share the same dynamic library. But I would guess the the
packages would depend on different versions of the library and the
package manager would end up installing a whole bunch of different
versions of the Phobos and druntime.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
