Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu May 23 04:27:49 AEST 1991
>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.
And you don't know enough about virtual-addressed cache hardware, if you
think that they can't support shared libraries.
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