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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:44:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hints static wiring 
Message-ID:  <200008291944.NAA10934@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:24:06 CDT." <14764.3542.322382.773438@guru.mired.org> 
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In message <14764.3542.322382.773438@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes:
: I suspect I'm going to be one of those people, but let's ask the next
: question. How do the two approaches compare from a performance
: standpoint?

Completely identical.  One loads the table from a file, the other
reads it from the kernel.

: Basically, which will provide the smallest running kernel, and if it's
: the same, which will boot fastest?

They should be the same size.  I'd be surprised if you could measure a 
difference.  You'll get more savings by not compiling in just one
driver.

Warner


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