Yes, I agree with Mark, but there is the other side of the problem. Let's suppose that we have an application that uses the interpreter through dynamic loading (I mean through the LoadLibrary). It isn't likely to be directly, but the application can load/unload some other DLL which, in turn, uses an embedded interpreter. Now after freeing this DLL the application has ALL extensions which was used by this DLL loaded! (Though it hasn't the interpreter embedded at all!)