From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Why is cygwin.dll? -Reply 17 Jan 1997 01:22:27 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC0468.AB4A3B90.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "M.Carter@gcal.ac.uk" , "'Barry Roberts'" Encoding: 17 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Barry Roberts wrote: >etc. you have running, there is only one copy of the code. So even >though each .exe wouldn't grow by 3 MB if they were statically linked, >they could EASILY take more memory at run-time. Plus, running cygnus >utilities from inside bash is faster because the dll is already loaded, it just >has to be mapped into the address space of the new process. The main advantage of using DLL instead of static linking, is an ability to replace DLL with new/patched/improved version without relinking of all other stuff. Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".