DLL vs Shared Library

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Thu Mar 30 09:48:14 UTC 2006


Daniel,

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Now my question: Does this mean that this is *not* true for Windows
> DLLs? Do Windows apply reload the same library redundantly for every
> application that uses it? I can't belive that could be true (think of
> the core system librarries!). Help?

As I understand it, DLLs under Windows are shared just like shared libs
on Linux.

Regards,
Tony.
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