Re: PC-BSD

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:42:48 +0200
> Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > 	Seriously though - why package a lib in a special place for
> > > an application instead of just statically linking the bits the application
> > > uses ?
> >
> > In the case several instance of the application are run at the same 
> > time, you would waste a great deal of memory with statically linked lib.
>
>
> 	No. Multiple instances of the same application can always share
> the same read only pages backed by the file they came from.

ah, ok. ;) so I join myself to your question.