Re: Sealed as Source Annotation

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• Subject: Re: Sealed as Source Annotation
• From: mkg@lanl.gov (Mark K. Gardner)
• Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:39:10 +1200, Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org> wrote:
>I think that separate compilation is *vastly* overused.  But it's still 
>necessary, no matter *how* fast computers get.  Do you want to have to 
>compile all of Windows/MacOS/Linux/??? every time you compile "hello 
>world", just because you're using the console I/O calls?  Do you even 
>want to have to recompile your SQL database every time you change a 
>program that uses it?

I get your drift. It would be a pain to have to compile libc with
every application.

BTW, I would call Windows/MacOS/Linux part of the executable's run
time system. ;-)

Mark

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