From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 18 00:25:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05383 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dawn.newsroom.co.nz ([203.96.59.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05372 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@aniwa.actrix.gen.nz) Received: from localhost (localhost.newsroom.co.nz [127.0.0.1]) by dawn.newsroom.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA03326 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:25:20 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@aniwa.actrix.gen.nz) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:25:20 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@dawn.newsroom.co.nz Reply-To: Andrew McNaughton To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DSO performance in apache_1.3b6 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org apache_1.3b6/src/README.DSO lists the following as a disadvantage of using the dynamic shared objects code. - The server is approximately 5% slower at execution time under some platforms because position independed code (PIC) sometimes needs complicated assembler tricks for relative addressing which are not necessarily as fast as absolute addressing. Does anyone know whether this is the case under FreeBSD? Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message