Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

[Mike McNally]

In article <213 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
 
|> You don't know about hardware enough. Because address translation is time
|> consuming, fast cache is always indexed by virtual address. Thesedays,
|> virtually indexed cache is quite common.
|> 
|> So, if you want shared libraries, you can put it only on slower machines.

How about MIPS R3000/R4000?  Maybe that's not fast enough.



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