From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 17:40:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBFB16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B1443D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from kasuga.mahoroba.org (IDENT:aTsrsm/2YNfv3l/XIY4lWNtpERGxV65/BajFdDV3vx1Yq2rqcdyEbli3wi+YLiK0@kasuga.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:20b:97ff:fe2e:b521]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id j7QHdPV7005715 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:39:47 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:39:25 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no> <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd6.0) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:39:49 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , Lyndon Nerenberg , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splitting off RPC and friends X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:04 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:05:52 +0200 >>>>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" said: phk> In message <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >Lyndon Nerenberg 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? phk> Very few programs are impacted by code in libc which they don't use, phk> libc tends to be in-core most of the time. I think netdb is tightly depending on NIS unless you specify -DNO_NIS when building libc. I'm not sure how many users are actually using NIS, though. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/