Subject: Re: Strange libc shared vs. unshared performance
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/13/1994 18:49:08
>
> >very interesting. do you have any numbers for dynamic versions?
>
> i did include dynamic numbers ... but i don't guess i labeled it very well,
> sorry. I used the command:
oops; i didn't read it carefully enough!
> let me re-state the results (the number is dhrystones per sec):
>
> dynamic -static
> CASE1 4940.45 5010.19 ! single usr, cache disabled
> CASE2 36727 37247.4 ! single usr, cache on
> CASE3 24138.7 37170 ! multiuser, cache on
that's an interesting result. i'd not have expected dynamically
linked binaries to perform better, in general, and given that they
did, i'm surprised that in the multi-user test the statically linked
binaries performed better...
"weird."
chris