Subj : Re: Question
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 10:04 am

Dave wrote:
) I think Windows reads the entire executable file into memory, then 
) attempts to load any dependent DLLs, before it starts to execute it.

I'm not sure, but I think most Unixes on the other hand simply map the file
on disk to some virtual memory and have the pager handle the actual reading
from disk.  For this trick to work, the pager needs to handle copy-on-write
pages, of course.  But it's quite advantageous because you reduce swap use.


SaSW, Willem
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