I like most of the ideas put forth on Agner's page here: https://forwardcom.info/ Some of them match things I already had in mind for an operating system, e.g. 1 library type, all PIC, libraries all live inside executables with a relinking step for security fixes.
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Casey might not like it since he can't do sparse virtual memory stuff though! But I think it's worth giving up some tricks if the net win is much larger.
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Interesting that we like these ideas for different reasons. Agner's motivation to have libraries in an exe but relinkable seems to be mainly about reducing the memory map. For me it's clearly beneficial for simplicity*robustness, if you want to make an OS where people
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can actually ship software without wasting their lives on stupid things like everyone does today.
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