40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:22:52PM -0600, David Leimbach wrote:
> Yep :).
> 
> I feel like saying "set the default to static and make the dynamic bins 
> the option" so
> the people who can't be bothered to compile their own system even 
> though everyone
> I know does this for tuning purposes anyway can stop whining.
> 
> But I won't say that.

I feel we need to pressure to improve the performance of dynamic
linking.  This is not really different from anything else we do in
-CURRENT: some things we have to throw out there before it is perfect,
in order to reach critical mass.

Cheers,
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Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
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