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In-reply-to: malte's message of Wed, 16 Jun 93 13:38:39 -0400.
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Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 1993 13:41:06 -0400
From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks>
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| What does this mean? Have I been running rc for about 1 1/2 years without
| problems just by lucky chance ???

 At least on Solaris and SunOS, if you static-link rc it will run much
faster (generally when forking programs).
 In fact, if you static-link everything that forks programs, your system
performance will probably suddenly jump. It's quite remarkable.

	- cks