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Every instance of the program will have its own private copy of the uncompressed data. For normal uncompressed binaries the pages of the on-disk binary would be
by jsnell 11y ago
Every instance of the program will have its own private copy of the uncompressed data. For normal uncompressed binaries the pages of the on-disk binary would be shared instead. (Except for any pages that get modified, which would trigger copy-on-write. A classic example would be load-time dynamic linker relocations).
- noselasd 11y agoSure - but that's a different thing than same-page merging.