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Subject: Re: Turkeys and dynamic linking
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walt wrote:
> To all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving today, I wish you a happy one!
> 
> And speaking of turkeys, does anyone know how Microsoft handles the
> performance issues associated with dynamic linking?  Do they do
> anything special, or just ignore the whole thing?

Don't they fix the performance hit by moving performance-critical parts
of the application into kernel space (such as IIS and MSSQL)?

At least, that's what Eric Raymond claims in his latest book.  I don't
think that's an approach I would like to see FreeBSD take.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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