Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:02:55 -0400


Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz> said:

[...]

> The math emulation code could perhaps go in its own section, and if its not
> require, free those pages early on. Or is this getting to messy?

Better make that kind of stuff modules. There you have the machinery for
loading/unloading already done and debugged, and you don't add further
bloat to the kernel.

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