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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 8 Jul 1996 09:41:45 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4rql4p$39f@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4pf7f9$bsf@white.twinsun.com> <4qad7d$a5l@verdi.nethelp.no> <4qaui4$o5k@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4qc60n$d8m@verdi.nethelp.no> <31D2F0C6.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> <4rfkje$am5@linux.cs.helsinki.fi> <31DC8EBA.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rqcsk$ff8@fido.asd.sgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:44335 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3962 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23037 lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > Moving on: the comment John made about static Linux vs dynamic FreeBSD > libraries doesn't ring a bell with me. It's certainly not true for any > numbers I've published (like in the Usenix paper - that was all dynamic > on all systems that supported it, including Linux). One technical correction to this: John's wording was: === [...] If you remember alot of old lmbench runs and compare FreeBSD vs. Linux, people would compare our dynamic shared libs results with the old Linux static shared libs, and FreeBSD would come out far behind. We did alot to speed FreeBSD with dynamic shared libs to be almost as fast as Linux with static shared libs. === You notice the term ``static shared libs'', i.e. he didn't mean static *binaries*, but those old Linux shared libs that were arguably very fast, but took a great pain to be made. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j