Subject: Re: Vast, vast speed increases
To: David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/24/2002 23:24:42
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:16:19PM -0700, David Hopper wrote:
> Thanks all, whatever has changed between 1.6D and 1.6H (dynamic linking?).
> I'm seeing dramatic speed & usability increases with this
> statically-linked 4.1.0 XFree server (compiled circa July 2001) on this
> Miata 600au. Mozilla is positively snappy.
A heroic effort was made to speed up the dynamic linker by Charles Hannum,
and I added a major performance improving change to the dynamic linker, as
well.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>