On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:57:52AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 07), Nils Valentin said:
> > Thank you for the superfast reply. I actually was looking for other
> > information. I understood the actual feature difference of the
> > standard and f.e max version. Sorry if this didnt came out so clear.
> > I will try to make it clearer.
> >
> > My question was more aiming at what advantages the dynamically
> > linking or the statically linking have (except the memory usage of
> > course). I was thinking when given 2 times the same versions once
> > linked statically and once linked dynamically which one would have
> > which advantages in regards to performance, reliability etc. ?
>
> You can't call dlopen() on a statically-linked binary, so you can't use
> UDFs. On the other hand, static binaries usually run ~20% faster.
20%?!
That seems like a high number. Have you actually seed that much of a
boost?
Jeremy
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