From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 25 10:16:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2C737B6DD for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) 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 LAA29609; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:16:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06040; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:16:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:16:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200007251716.LAA06040@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jazepeda@pacbell.net Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... In-Reply-To: <200007251710.KAA07319@vashon.polstra.com> References: <200007251710.KAA07319@vashon.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Besides, have you even established that dynamically linked programs > load too slowly? I've certainly never heard any complaints along > those lines. Furthermore I would bet that the bulk of the dynamic > linking time comes from opening the shared libraries and mmapping > them, and there's nothing the RTLD can do about that. > > John, who spent weeks instrumenting and measuring the a.out RTLD years ago. And optimized it greatly after these weeks, in one of his first projects in FreeBSD. :) :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message