From: tad@comco.com (Tadeusz Liszka) Subject: Re: Cygwinb19.dll 27 Jun 1998 19:33:12 -0700 Message-ID: <35952025.2781.cygnus.gnu-win32@comco.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Weiser Cc: Edward Avis , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Michael Weiser wrote: > > 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. :) > It wouldnt be the first time, that the swell idea was turned into the nonsense :-) Compare: US governement, IRS, communism, Gates empire ....... -- +------------------------------+----------------------------+---------+ |Tadeusz J. Liszka PhD. |Computational Mechanics Co. |`.\`. | |phone: (512)467-0618 ext 526 | http://www.comco.com | .\ `. | |fax: 467-1382; 7800 Shoal Creek #290E, Austin, TX, 78757 | . \ `.| +------------------------------+----------------------------+---------+ |Obligatory disclaimer: |Obligatory cool quote: | | These opinions are my own, | The public opinion should be really | | I sometimes agree with them, | alarmed by its own nonexistence | | no one else has to. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, transl. TJL | +------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".