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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How many processes?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-10-30 0:57:40
Message-ID: 200410292157.40764.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
>The memory used by the code itself is already shared between multiple
>instances of the same executable. Whether code is part of a shared library
> or part of an executable makes no difference in that regard.

Actually, it does.

Application code is compiled non-pure, whereas libraries are pure. That 
means applications have non-shareable code pages, while all the code in one 
library is shareable.

That can be easily solved by compiling the application executable with 
-fPIC, though.

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