From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 08:22:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3150416A4CF for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A1A43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAIGMOeG058026; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:22:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:21:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20031118.092100.108186967.imp@bsdimp.com> To: dyson@iquest.net From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200311181307.hAID7uHa032514@dyson.jdyson.com> References: <200311181307.hAID7uHa032514@dyson.jdyson.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:22:32 -0000 In message: <200311181307.hAID7uHa032514@dyson.jdyson.com> dyson@iquest.net writes: : It really doesn't make sense to arbitrarily cut-off a : discussion especially when a decision might be incorrect. I'd say that good technical discussion about why this is wrong would be good. However, emotional ones should be left behind. Except for John's message, most of the earlier messages have been more emotional than technical. John, do you have any good set of benchmarks that people can run to illustrate your point? Warner