Re: Run-time dynamic linking in grep

[Reuben Thomas]

On 21 January 2011 19:11, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 05:44 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> To try to avoid duplicated work, I'll start with one. Attached, a
>> rebased patch for adding transparent decompression using zlib (this is
>> patch #7017).
>
> Dumb question.
>
> Won't this have bad performance on multicore machines,
> compared to doing the decompression in a separate process?

If it does, you can do the decompression in a separate process.

> Has the performance of this change been tested recently
> on modern machines?

No.

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