DLL appreciation thread
DLL appreciation thread
whats there to appreciate?
bloat?
How do you pronounce DLL?
diieluelu
dee el el
[dJˈpɛndənsi hɛl]
dee el el
The fact that you can copy a DLL to another machine and it will work just the same
doesn't work on my gentoo
Install Windows XP
Dynamic linking sure is sweet in theory. You only need the code once and every program can just load it from that one file. In fact, the code only needs to be in memory once, no matter how many applications use it.
Then, unfortunately, there's this "reality" thing where every program needs different versions of the same dynamic library or else it breaks and thus there are bloated systems like winsxs to somehow provide a unique version of each library for each program.
But at that point, you could as well just statically link or put the dll in the same directory.
.dlls are pointless in 2019. Prove me wrong. Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way.
Not pointless, just abused as a concept.
abused since it was never enforced as it was originally conceived.
You get shit pajeets programmers do shit if you let them do that or worse if you release programs that shit on your own standards (Office is a great example, bloated mess)
>You get shit pajeets programmers do shit if you let them do that
What the fuck is this sentence trying to convey
it's a matter of standartization. it's safer to include static libs simply because devs don't plan ahead for the most part. it sure is nice to have a roadmap, though.
delly el
Dynamic linking is fucking cancer.
Thirdies are the quickest to jump on other thirdies. It's a projection thing.
Di Elle Elle, in italian
No, no, no. Dynamic linking isn't about other programs being able to use the same library. The whole point is to allow binaries to be extensible without the need for recompiling.
>8.3 filename appreciation thread
subhuman
You mean like using LD_PRELOAD hack shit? Or runtime dynamic library reloading? Or just as a relic from before precompiled headers were a thing?
gotta love installing old deprecated microsoft software to extract certain .dlls that you need that aren’t available anywhere else. Anyone else have this issue?
.so?
Runtime.
That's the whole point. You don't have to close out the program to make changes to one library. You can recompile and then reload it.
That's what dynamic libraries are best at.
OKANON~1.BAS
like bags of sand
Inferior to DLL in every way
dllllll, all consonant sound no vowel mafia
You must like msgina.dll
But wait you belong to
Retard it is supposed to be 8 characters long
wtf, yes it is about code reuse