From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:04:56 -0400 From: Dan Cross To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails Message-ID: <20060418210456.GT9931@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <775b8d190604181055g7eb9e200ncbf546291a0e098e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d323892-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:54:16PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > that's often quoted as a consequence, but in practice, > not that i've seen in ... what is it now? ... at least six or > seven different systems. i think the trouble is that to get savings > that make the pain worthwhile you still need various forms of > discipline, but with shared libraries, people are even less concerned. > and RSS continues up. I think shared libraries are often times misunderstood. I once knew someone who thought that a context switch was less expensive using shared libraries than without. - Dan C.