On 2006-11-11, at 06:08, Geert Bosch wrote:
Just compiling int main() { puts ("Hello, world!"); return 0; } takes 342 system calls on my Linux box, most of them related to creating processes, repeated dynamic linking, and other initialization stuff, and reading and writing temporary files for communication.
And 80% of it comes from the severe overuse of the notion of shared libraries on linux systems.
Marcin Dalecki