Re: Our (real) problems

[Drazen Kacar <dave arsdigita com>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 23:34, Alex Larsson wrote:

> > * Too many libraries
> > 
> > Our current development platform really has to many
> > libraries. Applications on the higher levels in the dependency chain 
> > drag in a ridiculous amount of libraries. This causes performance
> > problems with symbol lookup and increases startup time. Part of the
> > startup time can be fixed by using ELF prelinking, but part of it is
> > inevitable.
> 
> 	Yep - again - difficult to know how to 'fix' this really.

With a better linker. Which part of symbol lookup time is inevitable for
a case when you have 20 libraries as opposed to the case with only 2-3
libraries?

And what's ELF prelinking?

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