Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:51:08 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile Message-ID: <200102281651.f1SGp8d41759@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Feb 2001 17:29:40 %2B0100." <xzpn1b6py8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpn1b6py8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200102271125.f1RBPig49632@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102271746280.26953-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> <20010227150929.B72398@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpg0gyyifl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010228102308.K767@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
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In message <xzpn1b6py8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> writes: : > Why make make(1) statically linked? : : Because a) you need it to recover from e.g. libc fuckups and b) it : forks and execs a *lot*, and according to Bruce (I haven't verified : this myself) programs that do that (e.g. shells) perform better and : consume less system resources if they're statically linked. So long as it is not forced unconditionally to be static. We use make in our embedded devices for a couple of things and having it dynamic is a good thing for its space savings. a) happens very rarely (once since 3.0 and only in -current) and is easy to work around (copy a good libc.so.X to /usr/lib). b) I've not seen the numbers for this. If it is only 1% faster, it doesn't make sense, even though it sounds good on paper. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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