Jay Sprenkle wrote:
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
Overlays were a nightmare, and have very thankfully been banished by
virtual memory systems. Why do you hold onto the concept? It is more
effective to have direct addressing and let the VM manager do what it
does best.
