Shared Libraries [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Sun Jan 6 04:20:23 PST 2013


On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 12:56 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
[…]
> I completely agree. We _need_ dynamic libraries. But the problem is that 
> someone just have to do it and Walter doesn't seem to be in a rush to 
> implement it.

Is Walter the only person who can implement this? I cannot commit to
doing anything on this in the foreseeable short-, to medium-term future,
but is there anyone who can?

> > Of course then the issue is "How to link to shared libraries?". Go has
> > some difficulties here but the put a shim in place to deal with it.
> 
> What would be the issue of linking with dynamic libraries? We can 
> already link with C dynamic libraries without any problem.

For the Go folks, it is all about issues with garbage collection and
thread management, they need to perform contortions to deal with C and C
++ codes. I recollect it is to do with the way Go handles execution
stacks.

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