> Because ksh is used very often during Solaris boot > and runtime so it has > some importance for me to look at performance and > footprint and try to > optimize this...
But that's true with many other components as well. If would be better to use DTrace or some other sort of profiling to see if ksh (startup, whatever) is an issue. > AFAIK perf-discuss at opensolaris.org list was in the > CC: list of the > original posting... Ah, I didn't realize that. > BTW: Would it be usefull to make "-xarch=pentium_pro" > (or > "-xtarget=pentium_pro" ?) the default for Solaris x86 > binaries (based on > the detail that Intel Pentium-1 seems to be the > minimum hardware which > is currently supported) ? In the past, there was some work done in evaluating options like these with respect to compiling ON but there are ramifications to doing so. Again, some of the right folks with past experience in this area hang out in the performance forum so hopefully a few of them might share their insight. This message posted from opensolaris.org
