Re: a.out vs. ELF speed (WAS Re: Will a.out disappear?)

Shawn Rutledge (ecloud@goodnet.com)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:06:12 -0700 (MST)

> I did an upgrade to ELF and it seems that my machine is faster now (at=20
> least not slower than before).

I can't think of a reason that ELF itself should run faster, but since the
memory requirements are lower (shared libraries rather than having separate
copies loaded for separate apps) the system should swap less.

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