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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!celia!gray
- From: gray@celia.UUCP (Steve Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Dynamic Loading Question
- Message-ID: <1789@celia.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 05:17:57 GMT
- Reply-To: celia!gray@usc.edu (Steve Gray)
- Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood
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- Recently I saw several postings that related to dynamic loading of object
- files. At R&H we are currently developing an object oriented system that I
- think could benifit greatly from the type of run-time replacement of
- objects/classes that is available in LISP or SMALLTALK based systems.
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- There was one posting recently about a dynamic loader that had been developed
- by a third party that I foolishly deleted... also I am interested in what kind
- of system support SGI is willing to guarentee for this type of functionality.
- Does ANSI C or C++ have provisions for this type of functionality... is it
- going to? Sorry if these are questions which I could research elsewhere,
- but this is a start.
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- Thank you for any help you can provide!
-
-
- P.S. one of the primary reasons we are interested in dynamic loading is that
- linking large C++ programs is VERY slow. Any ability to dynamically replace
- the methods for a class would vastly improve our development cycle.
-