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Date:      28 Feb 2001 17:29:40 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as         Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile         src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile
Message-ID:  <xzpn1b6py8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:23:08 -0500"
References:  <200102271125.f1RBPig49632@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102271746280.26953-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> <20010227150929.B72398@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpg0gyyifl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010228102308.K767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>

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Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> writes:
> Why make make(1) statically linked?

Because a) you need it to recover from e.g. libc fuckups and b) it
forks and execs a *lot*, and according to Bruce (I haven't verified
this myself) programs that do that (e.g. shells) perform better and
consume less system resources if they're statically linked.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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