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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

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