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Re: [MiNT] C++
Am Samstag, den 19.10.2013, 10:00 +0000 schrieb Peter Slegg:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:09:22 , Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> wrote:
> > On 18/10/2013 02:28, Ole wrote:
> > > Enigma (it is C++ and based on libxerces, which is also C++).
> > > (The resulting executable was 60 MB in size =) )
> >
> > Executables seem to be smaller on Linux, because they use shared libraries.
> >
>
> Is there any way we could work towards shared libraries with some
> sort of "stop-gap solution" ? Maybe start small by making one item
> like mintlib loadable.
>
> I don't now if this is workable, I'm just chucking an idea out.
How about providing the most used libraries with a trap #x interface?
This way applications only link comparatively small code like they
already do for BIOS/XBIOS and GEMDOS calls while the bulk of the actual
lib code runs in one big lump that is loaded only once into memory?
Matthias
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