Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!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: <1991May21.091740@wsl.dec.com> Date: 21 May 91 16:17:40 GMT References: <213@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May20.090857@wsl.dec.com> <216@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <674816585.AA7847@flaccid> <219@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Reply-To: mcnally@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Lab Lines: 18 In article <219@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: |> |> But, you are better than others who post based only on their imagination and |> still require me, who post based on facts such as measurement figures and |> source code of 4.3BSD, to post based on facts. |> What does 4.3BSD source code have to do with R4000 architecture? And anyway, all that you need to deal with the problem of a virtually indexed cache is to force shared objects to map in at address boundaries bigger than the cache size. They don't need to be static. -- * "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