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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:06:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        boyd@insultant.net
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <20031125.100653.28845083.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a701c3b33c$f798c5e0$b9844051@insultant.net>
References:  <20031125012208.GD46761@dan.emsphone.com> <200311251214.23290.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <00a701c3b33c$f798c5e0$b9844051@insultant.net>

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In message: <00a701c3b33c$f798c5e0$b9844051@insultant.net>
            "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net> writes:
: i see that there some doubt about whether running lots of
: shell scripts ever happens.  what happens when you
: use make?  lots of shells get run and they run small
: (one line?) scripts.

make buildworld slows down < 1% when you switch from static /bin/sh to
dynamic.

Warner



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