> i wasn't serious [about adding shared libraries] the trouble with shared libraries is that they seem at first quite reasonable, and indeed at a fairly abstract level, it seems irrational to be more opposed to them than any other form of sharing, such as shared text, but the mechanics of linking and sharing (especially on current processors), and of configuration control, have so many hard facts that the simplicity of the original is quite lost. having experienced several variants, i find it now saves time just to adopt the irrational position from the start.
i think i'd rather have (say) mondrian memory protection than either shared libraries or the vm crud they keep adding to chips and systems.
