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On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:17, Chris Lattner wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#301fe4"><I>No, it's all or nothing. Once linked, they cannot be seperated (easily).
However, especially when using the JIT, there is little overhead for
running a gigantic program that only has 1% of the functions in it ever
executed...</I></FONT></PRE>
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Perhaps in the general case, but what if its running on an embedded system and the "gigantic program"<BR>
causes an out-of-memory condition?<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#301fe4"><I>There are multiple different ways to approach these questions depending on
what we want to do and what the priorities are. There are several good
solutions, but for now, everything needs to be statically linked. I
expect this to change over the next month or so.</I></FONT></PRE>
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When you have time, I'd like to hear what you're planning in this area as it will directly effect how I<BR>
build my compiler and VM.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Reid.
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