Quote - > Quote - Ummm - rooms you don't use do not consume CPU cycles. They don't really initialize unless you open them.

And I suspect they take very little RAM, so there's no real savings versus the headache that would entail for the developers.

Separate libraries, then, or ...?

(now I'm gonna have to go look :? )

Poser is a large (mostly) static linked executable.
DLLs have always been used for Python and the geometry I/O plugins (none of which appear to be delay loaded) and of course for all the system stuff that gets pulled in eventually.
P5 brought in some more (Dynamic cloth engine and some for image I/O).
P6 Unchanged.
P7 A few more (OGL shading, Collada)

A reasonable chunk of memory will also be used by the GUI resources (mutli-layer PSDs for decorating the controls etc.)