In article <200209050849.g858nEO03007@s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> wrote:
>Charles Hannum wrote:
>> * C++ code (and thus GNOME, KDE, mozilla, etc.) starts up much faster.
>> 
>> * The Alpha platform attains reasonable performance, where right now
>>   things like the XF86 4 server are basically unusable.
>> 
>> * The occasional `undefined PLT symbol' problems (on Alpha) are gone.
>> 
>> * Multi-threading support (i.e. r/w locking for dl*() calls) is added.
>
>Very cool, all these are very important.
>
>But please make the migration a bit less painful - such as keeping
>the old ld.elf_so as around (as, say, libexec/old.ld.elf_so),
>and keep using it for platforms which wouldn't be supported by the new
>ld_elf.so initially.

Isn't that what branches are for?

christos