DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2005-03
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Re: resident buildworld
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:On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:31:19AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
:> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:16:37 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger
:> <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:12:49AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
:> > > I was thinking today about how we patch the vendor files during the
:> > > buildworld process and the overhead added by running patch(1) all the
:> > > time. Perhaps we should use resident(8) more during buildworld on
:> > > program such as make, gcc, patch and other friends that are run
:> > > several times.
:> >
:> > I think those tools are statically linked. If not, they should.
:> >
:> > Joerg
:>
:> Why do you think they should be static binaries ?
:
:Makes them less depending on the environment. We add NOSHARED for
:the build and cross tool stage.
:
:Joerg
Plus the startup time is a lot quicker... something that normally
does not matter unless you are running the same program over and
over again (which is what happens in a buildworld).
resident does not make static binaries run any faster, so it would
not improve performance.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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