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So we are re-inventing patched a.out files, back when UNIX systems started to introduce dynamic loading, before ELF was invented? Advocates of static linking k

by pjmlp 2mo ago

So we are re-inventing patched a.out files, back when UNIX systems started to introduce dynamic loading, before ELF was invented? Advocates of static linking keep forgetting once upon a time UNIX only had static linking, then we had overlays, and eventually dynamic linking came to be.

pg83 2mo ago
Of course, I remember those times very well. And I also remember very well that dynamic linking appeared ONLY because we were catastrophically short on memory; everything else was added much later. Now we have plenty of memory, and we can very well return to our blessed roots!
- pjmlp 2mo ago
  Not at all, the pain of doing plugins with UNIX IPC was another one. Ah, you have lots of memory, we're very wealthy. /s
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo ago
  There is no RAM shortage in Ba-Sing-Se