From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 14:49:42 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 6292616A4CF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08EB443F93 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:49:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hARMnau31251; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:49:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Bill Moran , walt Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:49:35 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FC65B59.6060405@myrealbox.com> <3FC65F2D.50404@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FC65F2D.50404@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311271449.35193.kstewart@owt.com> 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 22:49:42 -0000 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