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Re: Cygwinb19.dll


Hi Edward,

You wrote:

>>if a person is running more than 1 Cygnus compiled application at a
>>time, you are saving on memory space and harddrive space to go with
>>dynamic linking.
>AFAIK, Windows loads a _separate copy_ of each DLL for every program
>that uses it.  That's one of the reasons it uses so much memory.
>
>(Please tell me I'm wrong... :-( )
AFAIK you are wrong. Doing so would turn the concept of dynamic
linking for saving memory into absolute nonsense. :)

bye

Michael
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