Re: Java Illusion (fwd)

[Joe Vaughan <joev@freddyfrog.com>]

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> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, John Mark Clayton wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I've skimmed the Project Mnemonic web pages.  I like the idea of a thinner
> > web browser.  I'd be happy to provide my multi-platform run-time linking
> > code.  I'd also be willing to impliment it as long as someone sends me the
> > relevant source code.  Add me to the maillist discussing this capability.

I'd be very interested in seeing your design for this.

I'm primarily the one doing the dynamic module loading stuff for 
mnemonic, and in recent times, I've been having nightmares about ELF 
dynamic loading.

There is one simple reason why I believe now that using dynamic 
library typew files won't work well in the real world and that is 
that is precludes the possibility of making a proper statically 
linked core that dynamically loads objects at runtime.

This is almost a necessity judging from recent remarks in the 
mnemonic dev mailing list about making mnemonic run on platforms that 
for instance don't have thread libraries. 

Does your design allow for a static binary, dynamically loading 
modules at runtime ??? 

Regards

Joe Vaughan
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