Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!mcnally From: mcnally@wsl.dec.com (Mike McNally) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries Message-ID: <1991May20.090857@wsl.dec.com> Date: 20 May 91 16:08:57 GMT References: <213@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Reply-To: mcnally@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 17 In article <213@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: |> You don't know about hardware enough. Because address translation is time |> consuming, fast cache is always indexed by virtual address. Thesedays, |> virtually indexed cache is quite common. |> |> So, if you want shared libraries, you can put it only on slower machines. How about MIPS R3000/R4000? Maybe that's not fast enough. - * "In the Spirit as my automatics, * Mike McNally * Lystra and Zelda were one third * Coolie * as large as the infinite Cosmos." * DEC Western Software Lab * --- D. S. Ashwander * mcnally@wsl.dec.com