[Coco] OS9 vs MS Win

Rogelio Perea os9dude at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 04:39:44 EST 2014


On Wed, Feb 26 2014, David wrote:

"one re-entrant application module into RAM, just increase the
> link count on each launch and set a separate data space for each"
>
>
> Hi Rogelio,
>
>
> This is how Windows works too. The memory pages backing an image (module)
> are shared across all processes, unless that process tries to modify the
> page (for example, writing to a global variable). At that point it gets its
> own private copy of that page.


Well that was more or less a surprise. Went out to read a few articles on
the matter and learned something new today!


-- RP



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