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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:16:05 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jazepeda@pacbell.net
Subject:   Re: ELF rtld and environment variables...
Message-ID:  <200007251716.LAA06040@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007251710.KAA07319@vashon.polstra.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007242337420.213-100000@zippy.pacbell.net> <200007251710.KAA07319@vashon.polstra.com>

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> Besides, have you even established that dynamically linked programs
> load too slowly?  I've certainly never heard any complaints along
> those lines.  Furthermore I would bet that the bulk of the dynamic
> linking time comes from opening the shared libraries and mmapping
> them, and there's nothing the RTLD can do about that.
> 
> John, who spent weeks instrumenting and measuring the a.out RTLD years ago.

And optimized it greatly after these weeks, in one of his first projects
in FreeBSD. :) :) :)



Nate


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