OpenEuphoria

Re: Sequence-Atom-DLL

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 03, 2003
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:11:12 -0500, C. K. Lester <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> I expect that the vast majority of people will
>> want to call Euphoria .dll's from Euphoria programs.
>
> Why make anything a .DLL? I'm guessing there's a speed-up in execution of
> the code? Is that the only benefit... speed?
>
I believe that Windows only loads one copy of the DLL into RAM, regardless 
of how many processes are using it. It removes it from RAM when the last 
process that opened it has ended. This is why DLL is very suitable for 
routines that are likely to be shared by many applications.

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cheers,
Derek Parnell