Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:49:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking Message-ID: <200311271449.35193.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <3FC65F2D.50404@potentialtech.com> References: <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com> <3FC65F2D.50404@potentialtech.com>
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On Thursday 27 November 2003 12:31 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > 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. It all depends because if you only have 1 dll loaded for multiple applications, which is one of the features I understand is built into Windows, you have real savings. You share the code and own the data. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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