loadable
Adjective
Meaning
loadable (not comparable)
Capable of being loaded.
This operating system can run a loadable image.
Examples
Each bundle is a tightly coupled, dynamically loadable collection of classes, jars, and configuration files that explicitly declare their external dependencies (if any).
A loadable writer enables logging in JSON format.
Since 1998, Caldera's dynamically loadable DRFAT32 driver could be used to enable FAT32 support in DR-DOS.
That same year IMS introduced native FAT32 support with REAL/32 7.90, and IBM 4690 OS added FAT32 support with version 2. Ahead Software provided another dynamically loadable FAT32.EXE driver for DR-DOS 7.03 with Nero Burning ROM in 2004.
The modules allow easy extension of the operating systems' capabilities as required. citation Dynamically loadable modules incur a small overhead when compared to building the module into the operating system image.
The advantage of loadable device drivers is that they can be loaded only when necessary and then unloaded, thus saving kernel memory.