Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:39:20 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: FreeBSD.org!hackers@implode.root.com, toor@jsdinc.root.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. Message-ID: <199504240039.KAA12354@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > Part of the execl problem is the Sun-OS style shared libs that we >> > use. I think this is being fixed by slowing down the Linux libraries to support ELF :-). >> To the contrary, *make*ing the Linux shlib's is a pain in the butt, >> while it's a very easy process to create a SunOS-like shlib. Apparently the benchmark doesn't test making the libraries :-). >efficient. We have done lots in the mmap code to help mitigate the speed >issues, and it would be nice if someone could take on the task of improving >the efficiency from the ld.so viewpoint someday. I think making libgcc static already made them 10% faster for small programs. Bruce
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