On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>
> > ("statically linked for performance reasons", rotfl)
>
> Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the
> performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%.
>
> I don't know whether modern CPUs' register aliasing hardware changes that
> number.On anything more recent than a 486, the answer is not a percentage, it's a research paper. Just to _describe_ the performance implications. And it's a different paper for each processor. On something like ia64, I don't think anybody even knows. At least, I've never seen a study of it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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