Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

[Mike McNally]

In article <216 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
|> In article <1991May20.090857 at wsl.dec.com> mcnally at wsl.dec.com writes:
|> >|> 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.
|> 
|> The primary cache of R4000 is virtually indexed and physically tagged.
|> That is, it can't map different virtual addresses to a physical address.

Then I'm working on a project that I can't do, according to your "rule".  Or,
you consider the R3000/R4000 to be slow.  I won't claim it's the fastest
CPU in the world, but I don't know of too many reasonable people who'd say
it's slow.

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