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Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:11:55 +0100
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> 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.

many, many people apparently that think that a context switch
must necessarily be much more expensive than a function call
and return (or two)