Re: Themes Themes... Drool time?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow mit edu>]

> They won't. It's called "load the pages from the disk as you need them",
> and Linux plays the game quite well.
 
First, there's systems with shared libraries that don't effectively
implement demand loading. Second, some systems need to allocate swap
for the whole set of code pages even if they demand-load. Third, there
is no portable way to tell the linker to not stick functions from one
drawing plugin with functions from another on the same page if they
are compiled into one .so, so even on systems with demand-loading some
memory may be wasted. 

And anyway, it's more elgant not to distinguish one set of widget
drawing functions with some special status beyond simply being the
default. On systems with winning dynamic linking, it can't hurt.

 - Maciej