Dolt illustrates that libtool performance should improve. However, the performance numbers posted by Dolt's author are based on an outdated version of libtool 1.5.X and libtool 2.2.X (containing four more years of development) is considerably faster.
I have already suggested on the libtool mailing list that DTrace can be used to help evaluate where libtool is losing time. This is an area where OpenSolaris developers can help the open source community at large and illustrate that OpenSolaris is able to offer something that Linux does not. Rather than patching around a performance issue, it seems best to resolve the performance issue based on the "all boats rise" concept. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
