From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: Cygwinb19.dll 27 Jun 1998 03:38:35 -0700 Message-ID: <35931c34.366126.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Edward Avis Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi Edward, You 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... :-( ) AFAIK you are wrong. Doing so would turn the concept of dynamic linking for saving memory into absolute nonsense. :) bye Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".