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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: Re: Which is better ?
Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21
References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <1u0u1h$jt6@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <3528@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1993May28.050433.24371@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1u5l7q$i4m@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> <1993May28.201031.6850@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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Date: Sun, 30 May 93 13:32:58 GMT
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In <1993May28.201031.6850@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:

|In article <1u5l7q$i4m@umcc.umcc.umich.edu>, lcd@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Leon Dent) writes:
||> What I was getting at with my question was...
||> Suppose Linux and [386|Net]bsd had equal reliablity.   Does BSD have some
||> performance or capacity edge over Linux?
||> 

|You are starting a flame war. If possible, try them both. Or pick one
|by random. Since I am working on Linux only, don't expect an unbiased
|answer from me. Without the shared libraries, I don't think 386bsd will
|have any real performance edge over Linux. BTW, if you are doing FP
|stuff, Linux may be better for you.

What have shared libraries to deal with better performance ?
Ok you get significant smaller code. And that can prevent a system 
from being swapping or paging. 
But the code isn't that fast as statically linked code.
because the shared memory organisation in the kernel produces some
overhead when running processes.

Or did I misunderstand something ?

	Andreas
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