[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

[Marco van de Voort]

> Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
> Even then, there will only be savings if the amount of code that can be 
> smartlinked is small.
> 
> Example: Let's say an LCL package is 10MB. 2 applications are 2MB when 
> smartlinked, and 100kb when linked against the package. (The heap can be 
> ignored in this discussion because its memory usage does not differ 
> depending on packages being used.)
> 
> Memory use with packages:     10MB+2*100KB = 10,2MB.
> Memory use with smartlinking: 2*2MB        =  4MB

_ADDRESS_ space use. Memory use depends on actual usage, since the pages of
memory mapped DLLs will only be loaded on access. (and afaik linux does it
similarly)