The following reply was made to PR bin/35589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/35589 CVS commit: src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/x86_64
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:44:29 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	skrll
 Date:		Thu Feb 15 15:44:29 UTC 2007
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/x86_64: mdreloc.c
 
 Log Message:
 Provide COMBRELOC support for amd64 in answer to PR/35589.
 
 Some statistics:
 
 base + COMBRELOC
 $ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
 (; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; )  148.64s
 user 4.82s system 99% cpu 2:33.93 total
 
 base + DF caching:
 $ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
 (; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; )  151.15s
 user 5.53s system 99% cpu 2:37.23 total
 
 base:
 $ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
 (; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; )  492.36s user
 5.34s system 99% cpu 8:19.17 total
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.27 -r1.28 src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/x86_64/mdreloc.c
 
 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.