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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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