From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 22 02:20:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03629 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03621 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:20:46 GMT (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA17524; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:18:38 +1000 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:18:38 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199804220918.TAA17524@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: mike@smith.net.au, peter@netplex.com.au Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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