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Posted Nov 25, 2025 19:36 UTC (Tue) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: Shared libraries by joib
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

Ok, but going back to the libtiff example, we probably don't want a multi call binary that includes every app that wants to process TIFFs.

I really wish something like Microsoft's OLE were more acceptable where we'd essentially have a bunch of methods we could invoke on a tiff object that was handled by a different process.


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Posted Nov 26, 2025 1:57 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

ISTR the Mill Computing (vaporware) ISA allows for efficient cross-context function calls.

https://millcomputing.com/topic/inter-process-communication/

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Posted Nov 26, 2025 4:06 UTC (Wed) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

Yeah, iAPX 432 also optimised for this use case ;-)


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