rtld optimizations

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:25:27 -0600
"Mark Felder" <feld at feld.me> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:49:11 -0600, Alexander Kabaev
> <kabaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  The only extra quirk that said commit
> > does is an optimization of a dlsym() call, which is hardly ever in
> > critical performance path.
> 
> It's really not my place to say, but it seems strange that if an  
> optimization is available people would ignore it because they don't
> think it's important enough. I don't understand this mentality; if
> it's not going to break anything and it obviously can improve
> performance in certain use cases, why not merge it and make FreeBSD
> even better?
> 
> 

The link to patch with said optimization is provided and one would hope
the next email on this thread provides something more alike to hard
numbers proving that it actually helps, instead of mentality
discussions.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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