Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But there's nothing wrong with saying "it's slow because your > libc is slow. Compile with this freely available library which has a better > implementation".
The hole in that argument is the assumption that there *is* a freely available library that can be used (where freely == BSD license). We wouldn't be having this discussion if we knew of one. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly