Re: GNAT Executables: How low can you go?

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

T.E.D. says

"I guess I'm alone in thinking this is just "re-arranging the deck
chairs"?"

Well you may not be alone, there may be others who share this incorrect
view. Putting the Ada runtime into a DLL will generally improve
system performance if you are running Ada programs, whether or not
they are run simultaneously. It is an excellent idea to put the Ada
library into a DLL. The SGI version has been distributed this way for
a while, and we definitely plan to make this kind of distribution
standard, since it will result in smaller executables, faster execution
(since the RTL object code does not have to be linked and copied),
and faster execution (since the RTL object code is more likely to be
preloaded in memory).

It's a win all round.