In article <199906042214.SAA05386@metsny.yossi.com> francus@yossi.com (Yoseff Francus) writes:
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>All the software I compiled for 1.3.3 runs under 1.4; I am slowly recompiling
>for 1.4. I am curious if this is actually worth doing in terms of stability
>and/or performance.
>

Well, it is better to compile for the latest release, so you can get rid
of old incompatible shared library copies. As for performance it can go
both ways: vfork and getcwd are faster, but the sigset_t related syscalls
will be slightly slower because the signal mask is now 128 bits.

christos