Making a dynamically-linked root

[Andrew Gallatin]

Martin Blapp writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > >I don't want to sound harsh, and I do appreciate your work.  However,
 > >I think the last thing FreeBSD needs now is to get slower.  We're
 > >already far slower than that other free OS.  Shouldn't we consider
 > >making the dynamic root optional and leaving a static root as
 > >standard?
 > 
 > This is during startup. Webservers and all other applications are
 > still dynamically linked as before. No speed loss there.
 > 

Webservers and all other applications which run shell scripts exec a
shell to interpret that script.  Regardless of how the parent is
linked, if the exec'ed shell is dynamically linked, there is an added
cost to exec'ing it.

Drew