isildur--

:)
brain and mouth/fingers were not reading from the same page. yes.
simpler terms: old csrg libc is fast&loose compared to the libc we use 
today.



On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:26:18 -0700
> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
> To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@vaxpower.org>
> Cc: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>, port-vax@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Compiling fast on a VAX?
> 
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Lord Isildur wrote:
>
>> when it came to protections and checking)- this had thrown off results from 
>> benchmarking a lot of programs, because gcc's optimization wasnt always 
>> better enough to overcome the slowness in gnu libc.
>
> Uh... NetBSD doesn't use GNU libc.
>
> -- thorpej
>