Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> > The number of directory entries in /usr/lib should not make any
> > difference to a modern GNU linker on a modern filesystem, unless
> > you have thousands or millions of them.
>
> Why? Is there magic now?
What magic do you need? Most filesystems can open a file without
doing an O(n) lookup, especially from the dentry cache.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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