On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:37:54PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > The 3.5 second difference of course cannot be attributed to slow dynamic > linking - it's the /lib/tls that suck. My guess is that some common C > function that hspell uses, perhaps even the stdio, strlen(), or who knows > what, is much slower in the tls version.
There was a recent thread on lkml about locking suckage with the NPTL libraries. I haven't followed too closely, but it might be relevant: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106797325227861&w=2 (thread beginning, it gets interesting around the middle). Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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