Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
16 Mar 1999 19:38:02 +0100

"Alan Curry" <pacman-kernel@cqc.com> writes:
>
> Aren't executables shared between multiple invocations in the exact same way
> as shared libraries anyway? (text segment should be shared for sure, and data
> segment maybe copy-on-write?) So is there really a difference between a 1K
> program that loads a 100M shared lib (which no other programs use) and a 100M
> statically-linked program? Either way, if you run two instances of the
> program, they should be sharing lots of pages.
>
As soon as you have two different programs which happen to share 95% of
their code, shared libs are a win.

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