Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/groff

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 17:04:09 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 06:15:43PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:12:22 +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     joerg
> > > Date:             Fri Aug 10 12:12:22 UTC 2012
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   src/gnu/usr.bin/groff: Makefile.inc
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Don't link explicitly against libsupc++, just use the normal C++
> > > linkage.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> When using static linkage, it doesn't make a difference. When using
> dynamic linkage, it stops the redundant copies. libstdc++ is not that
> heavy loaded with constructors to provide a significant overhead.

By the same line of reasoning, libsupc++ is so tiny that redundant
copies (a page or two of text) are not that much to provide
significant overhead, certainly less overhead than libstdc++.so.

Please, revert.

-uwe