On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaald...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Instead, consider reducing the number of libraries needed instead; by > folding more libraries into libc, we can avoid all the overhead > associated with setting up extra text and data segments for each library. > This would speed up both process creation and destruction.
Do you have a guess as to how much of an improvement you could get this way? Process creation is one of the things that just feels slow compared to alternative platforms. (Or rewrite everything in ksh93 and use builtins, I suppose.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ on-discuss mailing list on-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/on-discuss
