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To: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>
cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert), hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. 
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 14:30:05 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Actually, folks I have talked to have given me the exact opposite
> report.  And some people on the newsgroups have complained about the
> switch to ELF binaries since they are significantly slower than the
> original shlib implementation.
> 
> I think our shlib implementatio is still probably slower than the ELF
> shlib stuff, but I suspect it's not much anymore.

And as I told H.J. Lu, one of the Linux shared lib developers, it's
not really fair to compare Linux/ELF to ANYTHING in the FreeBSD camp
until Linux/ELF is truly in wide circulation.  Since the Slackware
distribution currently leads the market in overall Linux users
(something like 60-70%), I'll be willing to talk about Linux and ELF
in the same breath when Slackware goes ELF, but not a moment before.

					Jordan