Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[mooring]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:12:19AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 10:08 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> >Isn't dynamic loading really slow?
> 
> Not particularly, at least not as far as I know. There's some extra cost in 
> finding the library and loading it that you wouldn't pay if you were linked 
> directly to it, but AFAIK that's about it.

Dynamic loading can be noticeably slow if you are loading something
via NFS. In addition the PIC code and jump tables used for dynamic
linking result in a 10-15% slowdown in execution speed on SunOS and
Solaris (at least in my experiments). Not what I'd call really slow, but 
we've complained vigorously about smaller slowdowns.
-- 
Ed Mooring