From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Time and motion studies of gcc and egcs and LCC
5 Feb 1998 03:56:16 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD3222.BFAC0300.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "vischne AT ibm DOT net"
	 <vischne AT ibm DOT net>,
        "'marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com'"
	 <marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com>

marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com wrote:
> So, I stand by my statement that DLL linkage incurs very little run-time
> overhead.  There is some overhead at load-time, so for a trivial program
> I guess that it could be a significant portion, but for a long running
> program such as bash or gcc, the load-time overhead is proportionally small.
> 

When configure script is running, load-time Dll linkage takes about 70% of total execution time :-(

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