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Or be a lot uglier. See: Microsoft replacing its own API surfaces with binary-compatible representations to workaround companies like Adobe adding perf improvements like bypassing the kernel-provided kernel object constructors because it saved them a few cycles to just hard-code the objects they wanted and memcpy them into existence.


Microsoft's whole "Let's just ship all the dlls" attitude is a big part of the reason a windows install is like 300GB now.

Eventually you'd expect that something has to give.




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