Re: module vs builtin

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:07:24 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Hicham Mouline wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> curiosity makes me ask this :
>
> Does building a functionality (like a network card driver, or a
> filesystem...) as a module rather than a kernel builtin make it slower?

No, it does not. There may be a slight delay while the module is loaded
but this usually happens at boot time.

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