Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:33:50 -0800


dada1 wrote:

> You could have only one routine that would need a relocation / patch at
> dynamic linking stage :

That's a horrible way to deal with this in DSOs. THere is no writable
and executable segment and it would have to be created which means
enormous additional setup costs and higher memory requirement. I'm not
going to use any scode modification.

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