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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Shared Library Status ?
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 20:53:03 GMT
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In article <2lgb5g$11gc@introl.introl.com> tim@introl.com (Tim Chase) writes:
>This makes me wonder if there wasn't some problem with the earlier
>implementations of shared libs didn't have a performance problem that
>was fixed.  I don't remember any discussion, however, of such a problem
>but it's certainly possible.

I know that when I was porting OI to FreeBSD that the shared libraries
took forever to come up.  I haven't done before and after timings, but
it seems to be getting a little faster, but not a lot.

Warner
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Warner Losh		imp@boulder.parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
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