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[Frederic Koehler <fkfire@xxxxxxxxx>]

Uh....what's with all your speed-worries?
There's nothing wrong with sending binaries,
fork()/exec() will be trivial compared to the time communicating over the
network, and after that performance should be fine.

PS Shared libraries normally are position-independent, though they don't
have to be.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How shall we send clients executable code?  Shared libraries (speed
> worries)? Position-independent code (ew)? Binaries (speed and idiocy
> worries)?
>
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