[jdev] Re: GNUPG as DLL

[Trejkaz]

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 04:47, Michal vorner Vaner wrote:
> Anyway, GPG was designed to run under UNIX systems, where launching a
> binary is really fast (it has to be, since many good application use
> external programs for different actions, which menas configurability and
> not duplexing of code) and then it was ported to windows. Windows is not
> the main target platform for this, as I guess. (It is used from
> commandline, for example, which is quite a problem there)

It took this long for the true reason to appear in the thread -- Windows is 
slow at forking (actually it doesn't "fork" as such) new processes, while 
practically every other OS is fast.  This is why Windows doesn't have the 
mentality of using existing executables to perform tasks, but uses DLLs 
instead.

One might say that the correct mentality for porting to Windows is to provide 
a DLL to eliminate startup costs, but unfortunately that's going to take 
someone's time, and most people would spend less time migrating to an OS that 
doesn't suck, than would be spent changing something like GnuPG to work as a 
shared library.

TX

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