hmm i did not think about unix not having resources. i wonder how netscape
deals with this in their plugin format..
elrod
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> On 29 Jul, Mark B. Elrod wrote:
> > "register" themselves once upon startup. i have noticed that netscape
> > avoids the overhead of loading shared objects at startup by placing
> > registration info inside resources associated with the shared objects.
> > While this allows them to load faster as the beginning it is a little
> > obscure. i still think loading the plugins and sending them a
> > registration message would be the best way to handle this and then
> > unload the plugins until you need them. how should decoders determine if
> > they handle a bitstream though? it sucks to have to use file
>
> For now I think we should open the object and the ask it what it
> supports. Later on we should cache that information to avoid doing it
> each time -- instead we can just stat the file and check to make sure
> the one we have the info for.
>
> I would like to keep away from using resources to do this, since there
> is no equivalent concept under UNIX.
>
> --ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
>
> Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
