[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 575372] No way to unload the GModule of a plugin

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------- Comment #3 from Jan Schmidt  2009-03-14 19:41 UTC -------
Right - the GType registrations are the reason we don't allow the unloading at
the moment.

With my registry-rewrite branch (in by personal git repo on fdo), the scanning
and plugin loading is done in a separate spawned process. It'd be possible to
make that child process close and respawn every X plugins, which would limit
the number of simultaneously loaded libs, at the cost of increasing the plugin
scanning time.

I don't know how you'd measure when you were approaching the limit so you could
respawn the child though.


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