Building several dynamic libraries with one shared GC
NonNull
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Sun Sep 12 18:00:31 UTC 2021
On Sunday, 12 September 2021 at 16:23:13 UTC, frame wrote:
> Shouldn't the runtime not already be shared on Linux? The
> `Runtime.loadLibrary` specs say
> `If the library contains a D runtime it will be integrated with
> the current runtime.`
>
> This should be true for the GC too. At least the memory is
> shared because as I remember I could access __gshared variables,
>
> whereas on Windows nothing like this works and any DLL will
> spawn a new thread (for each thread you use too).
The plugin libraries expose a C API and are dynamically loaded by
the application which is written in C, so presumably using
dlopen. No D runtime there. Still your reply does suggest a way
to proceed...
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