DLL vs Shared Library

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:52 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Now my question: Does this mean that this is *not* true for Windows 
> DLLs?  

Windows DLLs are not position-independent, and as thus not "real" shared
libraries. DLL loading can therefore be quite resource-intensive,
because the addresses have to be recomputed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computer_science)#Shared_library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_independent_code