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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:25:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), woods@zeus.leitch.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) 
Message-ID:  <199804222225.PAA01154@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:19:52 CDT." <199804222219.RAA06214@dyson.iquest.net> 

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> I suggest that our primary platform market is servers, and optimizing
> for those is useful for reviews (remember the 64MB fiasco???)  If
> we all decide that it is generally good to make binaries shared, we
> need to make intelligent exceptions.  I'll scream terribly loudly
> if we even passingly consider making a shell shared!!!  Shells
> are almost never advatageously made shared.

I think this basically says that we need to make shared executables 
faster.  The nuisance component with static binaries is rather high. 8(

-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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