40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 24 18:36:59 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:19:31PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <16322.47726.903593.393976 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
>             Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> writes:
> : 
> : M. Warner Losh writes:
> :  > In message: <16322.46449.554372.358751 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
> :  >             Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> writes:
> :  > : I'll bet a larger percentage of our users build ports than need nss or
> :  > : ldap.
> :  > 
> :  > I'll bet a larger percentage of the people are ignoring this thread
> :  > than reading it since it has been so devoid of concrete numbers.
> : 
> : Aside from $SUBJECT..
> 
> I'm just saying that most of the developers I'm talking to on IRC say
> this tread is insane, has no content and they are blowing it off
> because of that.  A concrete, real benchmark will go a long way
> towards changing that.  Until then, you are as good as kill filed.

What qualifies as a "concrete, real benchmark"?  I take it you don't
think Drew's qualifies.

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