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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:59:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        chuckr@picnic.mat.net, imp@harmony.village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject:   Re: Adding desktop support 
Message-ID:  <199904282059.NAA01272@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:13:55 EDT." <199904281813.OAA15682@lakes.dignus.com> 

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>  Will adding stuff to the execution image impact load time?  I mean,
> even though that section will (likely) not be available in-core at run
> time, one will still have to read through it to load the executable.

We page executables, we don't "load" them, so the answer is no - the 
region containing the pixmap is never going to be referenced by the 
running code, so it'll never be touched.

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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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