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From: mayer@gmdzi.gmd.de (Hans Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))
Message-ID: <4692@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 10 May 91 06:53:35 GMT
References: <1991May09.032802.27213@decuac.dec.com>
Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany
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From article <1991May09.032802.27213@decuac.dec.com>, by mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum):
> 
> 	I was talking this over with someone the other day who claimed
> that SunOs' more recent versions have "often used" utilities like /bin/ls
> statically linked because there were complaints of performance hits -
> can anyone confirm or deny this?

jupiter% file /bin/ls
/bin/ls:        mc68020 pure dynamically linked executable
jupiter% strings /vmunix | grep SunOS
SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Thu Apr 25 16:42:43 MET DST 1991
jupiter%

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Hans J. Mayer, mayer@gmdzi.gmd.de (or hmayer@venus.darmstadt.gmd.de)
German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)