From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Aug 5 03:35:41 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <20050804193340.fh3nmvgomc8cgo8w@coolrunningconcepts.com> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:33:40 -0600 From: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com To: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com Cc: Mark Duckworth , Mint List Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for MMAP? References: <1123125355.27393.11.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <20050804102121.2d02b87d.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <1123144595.7665.0.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1123149042.18101.9.camel@evil.atari-source.com> <006a01c598f1$65012000$394bb280@ic.intranet.epfl.ch> <1123181751.24127.18.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <1123185358.18101.22.camel@evil.atari-source.com> <20050804164150.igbqsrdt0gs0sws0@coolrunningconcepts.com> <1123195637.13267.3.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <20050804170033.afua05jfbeo0ow8k@coolrunningconcepts.com> <1123196753.13267.6.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <20050804185747.c1df9exqwqj4cs4s@coolrunningconcepts.com> In-Reply-To: <20050804185747.c1df9exqwqj4cs4s@coolrunningconcepts.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - esc14.midphase.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - fishpool.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32001 502] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - coolrunningconcepts.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_01, NO_REAL_NAME X-Spam-Level: > Also, you want busybox to run pcrelative if at all possible and use the > shared-text bit of MiNT. MiNT still does the mbaserel text shared stuff > doesn't it? Is there a more generic form of shared text in MiNT these days? Can we assume that there is no self modifying code and that text segments would then be shareable, and we'd only have to worry about data segments. This could save considerable memory in some systems - either when there are multiple copies of a process running at once, or just multiple threads. -- Evan