Re: Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup

To: NetBSD Discussion List User-Level Technical <tech-userlevel%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:47:10 +0000

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:41:30AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
 > Nothing that could be done to libedit itself can possibly change
 > anything that is being measured here.

That's not quite true; it has a fair amount of data in its ABI, and
that incurs startup-time cost because you can't bind data lazily.
(Also, initialized data incurs bulk memcpys...)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

References:
- Re: Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup
  - From: Jaromír Doleček
- Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup
  - From: Robert Elz
- Re: Possible slight speedup to non-interactive /bin/sh startup
  - From: Robert Elz

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