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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] x10
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Date: Tue,  6 Apr 2004 20:18:39 +0200
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> yeah, well, just watch date(1) resolve 213 symbols sometime. to print
> today's date. Including threaded posix libraries for dns. It's really
> amazing, after we just saw Linus argue on this list how important TLB
> fault minimization is, to see how inefficient so many things are on Linux.

right.  run strace on any given linux binary and watch the torrent of
system calls before main() even gets called.  it is truly appalling: