On 5/24/06, John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Repeatedly installing a set of functions is not a good approach unless the application is persistent. A particularly bad case is a very common one, opening and closing an Sqlite DB in response to WWW requests. Much better that the functions be linked in with the Sqlite routines.
I see it this way: * plugins need not be loaded into memory until they're called. It adds almost no overhead unless the extended features are actually used. We did this with overlays in DOS many years ago and it worked very well. * The OS will probably cache the plugins. CGI already achieves reasonable performance by relying on this
