Re: On the cost of libraries

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth sun com>]

>Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM> writes:
>
>> Again on Solaris, the '-B direct' parameter to ld
>> *does* actually record the dependency (.so) for each
>> symbol, which results in faster, statically deterministic
>> linkage. [...]
>
>Anybody who wants to argue about something like this for Linux should
>get RH7.2 and the latest revision of the tools from
>
>  ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/
>
>This scheme is vastly superior to what Sun is using and reduces any
>relocation effort to almost zero.  Even without additionally using the
>prelinking the RH7.2 release uses by default some improvements which
>reduce the costs dramatically.
>
>So, don't start arguing about old code.

Who is arguing? I'm just mailing you what I know. And as far as I
know, we want GNOME to run everywhere, not just on RH7.2 and later.

Talk about trigger-happy... ;)

Colm.

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