> 
> 	/bin/awk
> 	    7.38s real     0.99s user     1.76s system
> 	/usr/pkg/bin/gawk
> 	   14.56s real     2.27s user     4.73s system
> 	./gawk
> 	    7.92s real     0.52s user     1.81s system
> 
> Welcome to the overhead of ld.so!  :-)

I wonder what it is up to (or even how to benchmark it).
Clearly you have to do a VOP_LOOKUP (or whatever netbsd calls it)
for each shared library, but the extra mmap() calls shouldn't
take too long I wouldn't have thought there was that much
O(n) stuff to do....

I wonder how to profile it - would probably be enlightening
(time is often spent where you least expect it!)

Oh, how many libraries are required?
(I guess their (required) pages would be present)

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk