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Re: strange crashes on invocation
On Sep 24 18:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 24 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >What I'd like to propose is to minimize autoloading to the entry points
> > >which are not available on all OSes. Other than that, we should link
> > >cygwin against all used system DLLs so it can profit from the fixed
> > >DLL addresses and the potential speed advantage the DLL sharing grants.
> >
> > I don't see how fork enters into this since Cygwin doesn't have any
> > visibility into the data in a system dll. It shouldn't matter where one
> > of these guys is loaded.
>
> Yes, in theory. I was just thinking that this somehow looks like a
> situation which appears to be similar to what happens in fork if a DLL
> can't be loaded at the right spot. I can't imagine why loading
> ws2_32.dll works most of the time but sometimes fails for no apparent
> reason. Of course there are still three possible other solutions:
>
> - Bug in ws2_32.dll
> - Bug in cygwin1.dll
> - Bug in application
>
> > But, coincidentally enough, I was thinking the
> > same thing about dropping the dynamic linking. It is less important now
> > that we no longer support Windows 9x.
> >
> > The other motivation for the autoload stuff was supposed to be reducing
> > the runtime link cost of resolving symbols that would never be used. It
> > would be interesting to see if there is any noticeable performance change.
> > I could see it either getting faster or slower.
>
> I'll do some speed comparisions over the weekend.
The results are terrible. There are three system libs which have no
visible impact when being linked against (ws2_32, secur32, rpcrt4). The
others have a performance *hit* from 2.5% (user32), up to 25% (iphlpapi,
shell32). In no way do the results support the point I was trying to
make. Autoloading rulez.
Corinna
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