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[Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

What, compile a new binary for each request? Same for shared libraries.


On 1/1/10, Frederic Koehler <fkfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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