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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
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Date: 9 May 89 20:45:24 GMT
References: <5664@microsoft.UUCP> <6793@cbmvax.UUCP> <746@boing.UUCP>
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In article <746@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>In article <6793@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>Amiga shared libraries, fonts, and device drivers are all demand-loaded.  Any
>>more sophisticated form of demand loading should be, IMHO, based on a hardware
>>driven virtual memory manager.
>
>I think we could granularize the demand loading a bit further. When a
>demand loaded library is opened it presently loads all the functions.
>We could instead just load stubs that would then load individual
>functions as they are actually used.

I humbly agree with Dale Luck's Humble Opinion.