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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:31:41 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking
Message-ID:  <3FC65F2D.50404@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com>
References:  <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com>

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walt wrote:
> To all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving today, I wish you a happy one!
> 
> 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?

Don't they fix the performance hit by moving performance-critical parts
of the application into kernel space (such as IIS and MSSQL)?

At least, that's what Eric Raymond claims in his latest book.  I don't
think that's an approach I would like to see FreeBSD take.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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