Jeremy Pack said: (by the date of Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:40:57 -0700)
We have a number of other benchmarks to write. The basic test Mariano did (which is in the subversion repository) opens a shared library, instantiates a plugin, calls a very basic virtual function, deletes the plugin, and then closes the shared library.
try unloading the library, replacing the *.so (*.extesnion) file with another file - the very same class. Only difference is that the basic function returns a different value, or prints different message on the screen. Then loading that library again and calling the function, without restarting the test program. I tried it just once with my plugin library and it didn't work. The cached plugin file was used instead. But I didn't spend any time to fix that. Only checked how it behaves. It may be important that the plugin file has the same filename, but different contents. I belive that above test should be a part of your testing suite - if you plan to support unloading plugins and reloading them later on runtime. -- Janek Kozicki |