Shared libraries are not necessary

Marc Andreessen andreess at mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu
Fri Jun 7 15:06:55 AEST 1991


In article <301 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>>>>What I was responding to was your claim that "only one X
>>>>application runs at a time",
>>>That is not my claim at all.
>Thus, my claim is, "when only one X application runs at a time, as is often
>the case, then memory consumption increases with shared libraries".

Why in the world would someone 'often' use X to only run one application at a
time?

For that matter, does the server count?  How about the window manager?

Marc

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