Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:05:52 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Subject: Re: splitting off RPC and friends Message-ID: <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:04:03 %2B0200." <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no>
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In message <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> writes: >> RPC and XDR are far from dead. Are you sure splitting these out is >> wise? We have to keep the code around, for NFS if nothing else. What's >> the benefit of moving the routines into a separate library? > >Faster load times for the great majority of libc consumers which do >not need XDR, RPC or NIS? Very few programs are impacted by code in libc which they don't use, libc tends to be in-core most of the time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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