rtld optimizations

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:25:27 am Mark Felder wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:49:11 -0600, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> >  The only extra quirk that said commit
> > does is an optimization of a dlsym() call, which is hardly ever in
> > critical performance path.
> 
> It's really not my place to say, but it seems strange that if an  
> optimization is available people would ignore it because they don't think  
> it's important enough. I don't understand this mentality; if it's not  
> going to break anything and it obviously can improve performance in  
> certain use cases, why not merge it and make FreeBSD even better?

Many things that seem obvious aren't actually true, hence the need for
actual testing and benchmarks.

-- 
John Baldwin