40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 12:20, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > OK my bad, it will probably slow down the ports building.
>
> I'll bet a larger percentage of our users build ports than need nss or
> ldap.

Err, yes..
Of course you are claiming it should be either/or, which is not very 
reasonable.

What about the newer version of gcc? That is considerably slower than previous 
versions, but I don't see people screaming to have it removed.

Most things are tradeoffs, this is one of them.

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