From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Cygwinb19.dll 26 Jun 1998 13:17:39 -0700 Message-ID: <01BDA0EE.32821B50.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "'GamerX_@usa.net'" , "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" , "'Edward Avis'" Edward Avis wrote: > 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... :-( ) Windows "maps" a single copy of a dll into process's address space. .text segment of dll is sharable (read only) between all processws, .data segment of dll is mapped into process address space with copy-on-write semantics. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".