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it probably doesn't cache user-id->name mappings.

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I've noticed that running (the ported version of) ls under OS X (10.2),
it is very very slow.  Profiling tools (is gprof+"recompile the world"
all there is?  why doesn't everyone have pixie!) didn't reveal much,
but top shows that lookupd is burning lots of cycles.  Apparently we're
doing lots of lookups (of passwd entries I guess) that the native version
doesn't do?

Under linux the difference is very much less, but it's there.  At first
I attributed it to something minor like bio doing less buffering than
stdio, but maybe that's not the whole story.
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