Re: [C++ PATCH] Optimize __static_initialization_and_destruction_*

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 14-May-2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 
> It's true that the code stinks, but it doesn't matter much -- nobody's
> inner loop is static initialization.

That's not necessarily true.
Optimizing program startup overhead is important.
Sometimes the inner loop is a script which repeatedly invokes a complicated
program to do a simple thing, in which case almost all of the time
is spent in process invocation and program startup costs.

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