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Re: [PATCH v2] Windows: improve performance by avoiding a static dependency on ws2_32.dll and advapi32.dll

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Michael Lukashov <michael.lukashov@gmail.com>
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Jan 28, 2010, 10:18 UTC
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> Thanks. Due to the size of the change, I would acknowledge it only if you
> have a proof that the reduced startup costs are noticable, for example, by
> running the test suite.
>
> What's the deal with bswap? Isn't it an unrelated change? It needs some
> better justification. It is unobvious because it is not straight-forward
> "use pointer to function that was looked up instead of function".
>
> Will the result not break the MSVC build?
>
> -- Hannes
>

"git status" calls ntohs function, which was loaded from ws2_32.dll I've noticed that bswap.h contains implementation of ntohl htonl functions, so I decided to add implementation of ntohs htons functions, which is pretty trivial. After that call to "git status" doesn't load ws2_32.dll

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  1. Windows: improve performance by avoiding a static dependency on ws2_32.dll and advapi32.dllMichael Lukashov, Jan 28, 2010
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  3. Michael LukashovJan 28, 2010
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