Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:40:13 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Subject: Re: rtld optimizations Message-ID: <201101261140.14024.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <op.vpw84o0b34t2sn@tech304> References: <AANLkTikwHteyqMfMpy_B-AxQ5ZQ_Z3RKhkNpGN23fXtX@mail.gmail.com> <20110125234911.223d8f75@kan.dnsalias.net> <op.vpw84o0b34t2sn@tech304>
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On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25:27 am Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:49:11 -0600, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > The only extra quirk that said commit > > does is an optimization of a dlsym() call, which is hardly ever in > > critical performance path. > > It's really not my place to say, but it seems strange that if an > optimization is available people would ignore it because they don't think > it's important enough. I don't understand this mentality; if it's not > going to break anything and it obviously can improve performance in > certain use cases, why not merge it and make FreeBSD even better? Many things that seem obvious aren't actually true, hence the need for actual testing and benchmarks. -- John Baldwin
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