what are the pros and cons of using a DLL?
Windows still use DLLs and Mac programs seem to not use DLL at all. Are there benefits or disadvantages of using either technique? If a program installation includes all the DLL it requires so that it will work 100% well, will it be the same as statically linking all the libraries? MacOS X, like other flavours of Unix, use shared libraries, which are just another form of DLL. And yes both are advantageous as the DLL or shared library code can be shared between multiple processes. It does this by the OS loading the DLL or shared library and mapping it into the virtual address space of the