Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

[Melinda Shore]

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In the proceedings of the Summer 1990 Usenix Conference (Anaheim) there
are two papers describing different implementations of shared libraries.
Both papers present results.  Both papers conclude that for programs not
dominated by startup costs, the costs of dynamic loading are usually
insignificant (obvious tautology ... ).  Donn Seeley's paper is
particularly relevant, in that he's arguing that it is possible to
have a shared library implementation that is both simple and fast.
You just have to know what you're doing.
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                    Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore - Cornell Information Technologies - shore at theory.tn.cornell.edu