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To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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Subject: Re: splitting off RPC and friends
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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?

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