In message <3DC552E5.3040302@augustsson.net>, Lennart Augustsson writes:
>Well, we were promised that the performance problems with dynamically
>linked binaries would be solved (before switching to a dynamic /bin?), I 
>guess
>they were not.

I wonder if the issue is system performance vs. program performance on 
a microbenchmark.   That is, a whole system might perform faster if 
only one copy of libc had to be resident, but each individual command 
might be a bit slower.

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