[fpc-devel] Dnamic packages support

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sat, 3 Nov 2007, schreef 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)

True, but does that change this calculation? I.e. if 75% of the code is in 
memory, the calculation still results in the same conclusion. Or is there, 
according to you, a reason why smartlinked programs have higher loading 
percentages than dynamically linked programs?

Daniël