>On 29-Jul-99 Mark B. Elrod wrote:
> > we are rewriting the plugin loading stuff for freeamp2 in order to make
> > things more efficiaent and reduce the overall memory footprint. right
> > now every plugin is loaded at the beginning of the program and it stays
> > in memory whether you use it or not. the next version of the plugin
> > manager will only load plugins on demand hopefully saving on some memory
> > usage.
>
>Demand loading of pages... on linux at least, you're not going to save any
>memory by having the plugins only load as needed, since the OS already does
>this for you.
Only for the code pages, you would still load the data pages (though
they would probably be swapped out fairly quickly).
Jason
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