40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

[Colin Percival]

At 00:23 26/11/2003 -0500, Michael Edenfield wrote:
>Static /bin/sh:
>   real    385m29.977s
>   user    111m58.508s
>   sys     93m14.450s
>
>Dynamic /bin/sh:
>   real    455m44.852s
>   user    113m17.807s
>   sys     103m16.509s

   Given that user+sys << real in both cases, it looks like you're running 
out of memory; it's not surprising that dynamic linking has an increased 
cost in such circumstances, since reading the diverse files into memory 
will take longer than reading a single static binary.
   I doubt many systems will experience this sort of performance delta.

Colin Percival