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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries
Message-ID: <7975@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 May 91 18:27:49 GMT
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>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.

And you don't know enough about virtual-addressed cache hardware, if you
think that they can't support shared libraries.