From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 11 14:49: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6083C37B479; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26371; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:49:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08960; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:49:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:49:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011112249.PAA08960@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed In-Reply-To: <20001111144604.B21664@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200011110257.eAB2vj034258@vashon.polstra.com> <200011110315.eAB3Fp909237@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200011111854.LAA04008@nomad.yogotech.com> <20001111144604.B21664@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > For awhile, GCC's internal compiler libraries were compiled shared, but > > the speedups from compiling them static were significant enough to show > > static linking is *significantly* faster than shared linking, even if > > you remove the startup issues. > > Hate to say this, but GCC 3.0 will most likely use a shared libgcc. [ FWIW, it wasn't libgcc that I was speaking of, but the actual libraries for the language. However.... ] Are we *forced* to use it? I would think we have the ability to choose to make it static if we so desire. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message