Subj : Re: Question
To   : comp.programming
From : robertwessel2@yahoo.com
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 09:23 pm


Willem wrote:
> 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.


Windows to, so long as he doesn't need to relocate the executable image.

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