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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance
Message-ID: <818@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 00:31:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 00:31:26 1987
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: cost of bloated programs
Summary: Shared libraries don't have to be in ROM.
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In article <2498@xanth.UUCP>, kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
> In <417@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
> > management stuff.  Isn't this stuff shared across all sorts of things
> > in SunWindows?  If so, why is EVERY "tool" so VERY slow loading?
> From what I've read about the Macintosh (I don't own one), it appears
> they did the right thing by putting the window management tools into
> ROM.  I sure wish Sun would do something like that.

Shared libraries don't have to be in ROM. On the Amiga they do rather well
being loaded when needed and flushed when memory gets low. The semantics
of shared libraries under UNIX are difficult to see. Does anyone have any
ideas about hwo you can share stuff like that? Making windows first class
virtual devices and sending them escape sequences sounds like a win. I know
X-windows does that, but it's huge. Extended ANSI codes or maybe even
tektronics graphics codes would probably cut it. Amiga Intuition provides
such an interface for text applications.
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