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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 11:17:47 GMT
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In article <28tn7i$fl8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:
=>
=>386bsd doesn't have shared libraries, does it? If it does, I don't think
=>they're in common use. It might be more fair to make sure the Linux
=>binary is statically linked as well.
=>
   No, it is fair to compare them in the most common configuration
for each. Same goes for any disk space comparison.

                                      Gary D. Duzan
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts