Re: Docking browser tabs to windows manager.
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 00:34:59 +0100
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Charles Curley (12019-12-02):
> > But actually having multiple copies of the
> > same
> > program is a waste of memory space, and possibly of swap space.
> > This is why we write re-entrant code.
>
> This is not true with modern operating systems: code and read-only
> data are shared between instances. If the application is correctly
> programmed, the only variable stuff will be what needs to really be
> variable, and having several instances has no extra costs.
We just said the same thing in different terms.
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