On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

:  > Just a 'note that', in the linux arm port emailist there has been an off and on
:  > discussion about lower performance when using ELF format, vs a.out. Has
:  > anyone run some benchmarks on ELF vs a.out under NetBSD?
:
: In our particular implementation, there is some additional program
: start-up overhead for dynamically linked programs.

...which is, in the opinion of most, negligible when weighed against the
benefits (such as better maintained toolchain and more standard file
format)....

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