Re: bin/50638: Extreme slowness on loading gzipped kernels on old CPUs

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50638; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/50638: Extreme slowness on loading gzipped kernels on old CPUs
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:15:06 +0900

 joerg@ wrote:
 
 > This strongly suggests that a lot of seeking happens and the input is
 > processed multiple times. Is there a very good reason for not just
 > sucking in the whole kernel in one go or at least use a resize+read loop
 > once we know that it is an ELF binary we are interested in?
 
 It's a known and separate issue, filed as PR/38943.
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui