On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > : It really doesn't make sense to arbitrarily cut-off a > : discussion especially when a decision might be incorrect. > > I'd say that good technical discussion about why this is wrong would > be good. However, emotional ones should be left behind. Except for > John's message, most of the earlier messages have been more emotional > than technical.
I used to use all dynamic linkage, but switched to all static linkage (except for ports) when I understood John's points many year ago. It shouldn't be necessary to repeat the argmuments. > John, do you have any good set of benchmarks that people can run to > illustrate your point? Almost any benchmark that does lots of forks or execs, or uses libraries a lot will do. IIRC, 5-10% of my speedups for makeworld was from building tools static. Makeworld is not such a good benchmark for this as it used to be since it always builds tools static so the non-staticness of standard binaries doesn't matter so much. Perhaps it still matters for /bin/sh. Bruce _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
