Am 13.04.2017 12:03 schrieb "Mattias Gaertner" <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de>: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:28:02 +0200 > Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > >[...] > > The intended purpose of dynamic packages (and libraries in general) is not > > to save memory (in fact a binary plus packages would be much larger than > > the statically compiled binary), but to share *binary* code so that this > > code does not need to reside in multiple executables. > > 'What do we need them for? What's "special" about packages?': > > http://wiki.freepascal.org/packages#What_do_we_need_them_for.3F_What.27s_.22special.22_about_packages.3F > > > >[...] > > It isn't merely the memory management. The Object Pascal RTL exists of much > > more than just memory management: there is exception handling, the RTTI, > > resource strings, unit initialization and finalization. > > Good examples. I added them.
Thanks. Though I should probably take the time somewhen and clean up that article a bit to reflect the current state a bit more. Regards, Sven
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