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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:23:22 +0100
From:      "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To:        <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh
Message-ID:  <045801c3b2e1$f4844240$b9844051@insultant.net>
References:  <16322.26365.159173.946033@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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> So.. forking a dynamic sh is roughly 40% more expensive than
> forking a static copy of sh.  This is embarrassing.

read the original paper carefully:


http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cache/papers/cs/3066/http:zSzzSzswt-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.dezSz~1friedrizSzsvzSzreferenceszSzShared_Libraries_In_Sun_OS.pdf/gingell87shared.pdf

it's conclusions state that they are slower.  this was the
_original paper_ that announced the damn things.



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