Posted Dec 5, 2008 10:05 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
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I found the whole discussion about modularity, or lack of it, in Java, interesting and informative re e.g. _why_ it's so slow to start and takes up such a huge footprint. I'm glad the editor pointed it out.
Project Jigsaw (Mark Reinholds Blog)
Posted Dec 5, 2008 12:04 UTC (Fri) by neiljerram (subscriber, #12005)
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Me too. I'm interested in trying to work out if something similar would be useful for my project (guile). Would be especially interested to hear any LWN reader experience/comments on consequent runtime cost, i.e. the cost of having to dlopen more small libraries, to get everything that an application needs.