From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 12:20:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6194A16A4CF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1613C43FDF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix, from userid 953) id F280D98; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:20:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from [128.2.138.94] (VPN94.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.94]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A3C9B; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:20:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: walt In-Reply-To: <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com> References: <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1069964387.10526.1.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:19:48 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_XIMIAN autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:20:33 -0000 On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:15, walt wrote: > And speaking of turkeys, does anyone know how Microsoft handles the > performance issues associated with dynamic linking? Do they do > anything special, or just ignore the whole thing? My understanding is that they perform a special linking/postprocessing step which optimizes executables for fast runtime linking and loading. -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH