Why is GNU/Linux so Bloated?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> writes:
>
>   
>> I'm not sure whether base addresses are allocated randomly or
>> something else is at work here, but collisions are not that common.
>>     
>
> You can manually rebase a DLL at post-link time, and I think that DLLs
> shipped by commercial vendors (such as MS :) have precomputed base
> addresses to avoid the overhead of load-time relocations. If many of
> the DLLs in your experience came from 3rd parties then this may
> explain your observation.
>
>   
When they did not come from 3rd parties, then I got a link warning when 
I linked my application, and I rebased them.

Either way, actual collisions were not so often.

Shachar
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable#Relocations
> http://www.ddj.com/184416272
>
>   


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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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