40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:52, Dan Nelson wrote:
 > > I'd greatly prefer that the the dynamic root default be backed out
> > > until a substantial amount of this performance can be recovered.
> >
> > What _REAL WORLD_ task does this slow down?
>
> Try timing "cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-devel ; make clean" with static
> and dynamic /bin.  bsd.port.mk spawns many many many /bin/sh processes.

OK my bad, it will probably slow down the ports building.

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