Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:18:38 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: mike@smith.net.au, peter@netplex.com.au Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption Message-ID: <199804220918.TAA17524@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Bruce Evans (bless his Retro soul :-) has some recent experience with this. >He was running with SHLIBDIR=/lib for some time with a fully dynamic >system. He's since switched to the complete opposite, *everything* static, >including /usr/bin and the works. He recently got a few percent (5%? 8%?) >of a speedup in the 'make world' stakes by making the /usr/obj/tmp/usr/bin >stuff static and skipping a the build stages of some of the larger shared >libs until later. (the speedup was due to less overall compiling being >done as well as a reduction in exec startup and PIC relocation overheads). 23% altogether for these plus using an mfs /tmp (from 6788.93 to 5211.35 for a full `make world' on a K6/233). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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