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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!sgigate.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 8 Jul 1996 18:06:15 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4rrimn$dro@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4pf7f9$bsf@white.twinsun.com> <4rql4p$39f@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:44367 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3964 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23052 Yup, that's right. I had completely forgotten about that. I think I have both the old and the new libs on my 486, I'll have a crack at seeing the perf differences and post them here. My mistake. : > 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. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804