From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10604192010w61d7594byb38e9fa85d0715ec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:10:12 -0400 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails In-Reply-To: <44454FAB.3050806@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_13806_22732076.1145502612108" References: <775b8d190604180946s5dbd2fb4yd42bc42cc509274c@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60604181046u62adc3b7h288b19a799639dfc@mail.gmail.com> <44454FAB.3050806@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 41192696-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_13806_22732076.1145502612108 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Didn't Burrough's MCP have this way back when? The public libraries even functioned as IPC, although you could still link privately & get normal static binaries... On 4/18/06, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > David Leimbach wrote: > > > Don't shared libraries also typically provide memory savings? One > > version of your c library "resident" for all VM spaces to map? > > > > that's never been demonstrated in practice. The claim has been made, but > it's all notional and hand-waving. > > ron > -- Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there i= s nothing final about it. Thus God is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the traditional forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency which would debase the entire value of being born." -- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_13806_22732076.1145502612108 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Didn't Burrough's MCP have this way back when? The public libraries even fu= nctioned as IPC, although you could still link privately & get
norma= l static binaries...

On 4/18/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl= .gov> wrote:
David Leimbach wrote:

> Don't shared libraries also typically pro= vide memory savings?  One
> version of your c library "= ;resident" for all VM spaces to map?



that's never been = demonstrated in practice. The claim has been made, but
it's all notional and hand-waving.

ron


--
Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he k= nows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a ki= nd of crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The worl= d continues on its course at random and there is nothing final about it. Th= us God=20
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted somethin= g -- and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of= evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pai= n and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert = Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_13806_22732076.1145502612108--