On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:43:24AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > I don't have stronger opinion on dynamic linking, but maybe dlopen(3) > for libterminfo can be used as microptimization? Recently we were > optimizing similarly sh(1).
That wasn't committed. I'd be really unhappy if much of netbsd base started using dlopen. I had a lot of trouble debugging programs that make use of it in the past. ls isn't used nearly as heavily in scripts/makefiles so a startup penalty is fine. I don't think the startup penalty is a required fact of life of using dynamic linking, and I've tried profiling things to get numbers on where its spending time, but having some trouble with dtrace at the moment.
