Patch: RFC: PR 9125

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Oscar" == Oscar Pearce <oscar@pearceenterprises.com> writes:

Oscar> I was thinking about this (for what little that's worth) and
Oscar> I'm not sure that this'll come up in practice.  If you're
Oscar> redeploying a webapp (for instance), you would expect the app
Oscar> server to create a new ClassLoader to serve the newly deployed
Oscar> webapp.

We could go around modifying the various programs to search for the
.so file first and use the (new) solib: URL stuff.

Oscar> Actually, thinking about it a little more, wouldn't it make
Oscar> more sense to cache only successfully loaded .so files?

Our system class loader will look for .so files.  If we don't cache
the failures then we can end up making a lot of dlopen() calls that
just fail.  Apparently this can cause performance problems.

Tom