From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: Cygwinb19.dll 26 Jun 1998 02:00:50 GMT Message-ID: <6muvci$s4r$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article , Edward Avis wrote: >>if a person is running more than 1 Cygnus compiled application at a >>time, you are saving on memory space and harddrive space to go with >>dynamic linking. > >AFAIK, Windows loads a _separate copy_ of each DLL for every program >that uses it. That's one of the reasons it uses so much memory. > >(Please tell me I'm wrong... :-( ) You're wrong. -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada