http://TextEdit.app loads 260 modules into its address space, including a GPU-accelerated neural network.
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There are, in fact, many. One is that even now, the separate plugin-container executable exists, and we wouldn't want libxul to be statically linked to both plugin-container and firefox.
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And then there's the fact that we manually preload libxul because OSes are really bad at handling big binaries in an efficient way. That matters less on SSDs, but with spinning disks, it makes a ton of difference.
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