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Were stuck with a computing paradigm from 50 years ago. Ideally everything would be statically linked but thr sections would be marked and deduped by the files
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Were stuck with a computing paradigm from 50 years ago.
Ideally everything would be statically linked but thr sections would be marked and deduped by the filesystem.
- microtonal 2y agoEven though the idea is much older, shared libraries were only introduced on Unix systems on SunOS 4.x and System V release 3 (?). Sun paper from 1988: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs414/2001FA/sharedlib.pdf https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs414/2001FA/sharedlib.pd...
- LtWorf 2y agoThey'd still be duplicated in RAM in the page cache… which is the real problem with static linking.