svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Warner Losh]

On Jun 11, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 6/11/2011 6:07 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
>> To me, this seems like the wrong direction.  Over the last decade, we've
>> been trying to move away from conditional compilation of features to
>> having them be loadable as modules.
> 
> FWIW, I agree. I'm wondering though, is there still a performance penalty for modules? My understanding in the past was that there is, although for most use cases it's in the statistical noise. Is that still true?

At run time, I believe that's true.  At load time, lots of modules can take a few seconds longer.

Warner