40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:48 PM -0800 2003/11/25, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>              What I am advocating is that FreeBSD-5 not marginalize and
>      restrict (make less flexible) basic infrastructure in order to get other
>      infrastructure working.

	If you've got working, debugged code that works in the manner you 
are espousing, and still achieves the same goal of making NSS and PAM 
work everywhere, I'm sure we'd all love to see it.


	In the absence of any code contribution to the contrary, I see no 
alternative than the method that has been selected.  Sure, it's not 
great.  Sure, it's slower (more or less, depending on which 
benchmarks you believe).

	But it is the best implementation that was available, and this is 
-CURRENT, where things are expected to periodically be in a state of 
flux while major changes are underway.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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