Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:26 PM 8/30/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > >
> > >Oh, and then they will be unloaded if we need the space for something
> > >else.  I understand now, thanks.
> >
> > Well, probably not, though that could be reasonable for a particular
> > platform. It's only relevant for a persistent interpreter anyway--for ones
> > fired up fresh it doesn't matter, since they won't have anything loaded to
> > start.
>
>
>Still, if there was some networking code at the beginning but only the
>beginning, and othe code later, explicitly marking the now-unreachable
>code as recyclable could be a win, if it isn't much trouble.  But that's
>what LRU paging does anyway -- what platfoms are we talking about, that
>don't have LRU paging?

The Palm, WinCE (I think), various embedded devices (I don't think my car 
has a LRU paging scheme, for example), depending on how the translation 
goes a JVM port might not...

                                        Dan

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