libphobos.so libdruntime.so

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:19:37PM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, February 02, 2012 18:34:34 H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > Are there any *good* reasons why druntime and libphobos are not
> > dynamically linked? In the long run, we need to support that, since
> > otherwise D binaries will be unnecessarily large and the OS won't be
> > able to optimize memory usage by sharing library images with
> > multiple processes.
> 
> Because dmd does not yet support shared libraries on Linux.
[...]

Hmph. Since gdc *does* support shared libraries (I think?), it should be
possible, at least in principle, no?


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