Provided are techniques for receiving a request to load a first resource corresponding to an application onto a computing system for execution; determining whether or not the first resource is identical to a resource loaded in a virtual scope library (VSR); and, if the first resource is determined not to be identical to any particular resource loaded in the VSR, load the first resource into the VSR; and direct references to the first resource in the application to the first resource loaded in the VSR; and otherwise, if the first resource is determined to be identical to the second resource, direct references to the first resource in the application to the particular resource stored in the VSR.