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Re:An alternative to shared libraries (2008) by _bxg1 on Monday June 25, 2018 @10:55PM (#17397573)
Which totally defeats the purpose of dll's, right? I'm not judging; this just seems like a pretty condemning argument against the practice as a whole
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Re:An alternative to shared libraries (2008) by sententia on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:45PM (#17397718)
It's not. DLLs also provide a way to share compiled code between programming languages that are not binary compatible.
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