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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:23:19 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: benchmark hell.. 
Message-ID:  <16028.798686599@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 95 23:55:49 %2B0200." <199504232155.XAA02620@jette.heep.sax.de> 

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> > Part of the execl problem is the Sun-OS style shared libs that we
> > use.
> 
> 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.

I don't think that was the point.  We all understand that *BSD's
shared lib scheme is infinitely superior to the Linux one from the
_developer's_ standpoint, but it's got its own performance penalty
associated with it.  We decided that the trade-off was worth it, Linux
didn't.

						Jordan



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