On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:27:44PM -0800, John Clark wrote:

 > Just a 'note that', in the linux arm port emailist there has been an off and on
 > discussion about lower performance when using ELF format, vs a.out. Has
 > anyone run some benchmarks on ELF vs a.out under NetBSD?

In our particular implementation, there is some additional program
start-up overhead for dynamically linked programs.  But for static
programs, I can't see how there could be any difference whatsoever.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>