[Haskell-cafe] Re: Non-technical Haskell question
Ketil Malde
ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Mon Dec 6 11:52:43 EST 2004
John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> writes:
>> sensibly share libraries between apps. Anyway, disc is cheap.
> Memory not so much, though. One advantage of having something in .so
> form is that every instance of every application that uses it shares the
> same in-memory image of the code.
Well, a 5 Mbyte [1] overhead isn't really that much, IMHO. You'd need to
run a lot of (different; if they're the same, the text will be shared)
applications to get any measurable benefit. Eventually, it would be
nice to have dynamic linkage, but I can see why it isn't a priority.
-kzm
[1] On my Linux system, the overhead seems to be less than 2
Mbyte. 5 Mb is the figure used by the OP.
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