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 
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