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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:17:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh 
Message-ID:  <16322.51646.766041.349180@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031125025621.453732A8FC@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <20031124.191931.67791612.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031125025621.453732A8FC@canning.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm writes:

 > We need nsswitch type functionality in /bin/sh.  To the people who want to
 > make it static, lets see some static binary dlopen() support or a nsswitch
 > proxy system.

Maybe this is just nieve, but I always thought that it was the
responsibility of the party introducing the creeping feature to
underdatand and then minimize a potential performance impact.  But now
we're treading over ground brought up by John Dyson last week.

I've at least partially quantified the performance impact, which is
all I have time for.



Drew



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