Re: Get rid of deprecated widgets

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:

> A possibly interesting approach would be to put all the deprecated code
> in another ELF section and place that section at the end. This will mean
> that the deprecated stuff will be in one continous place and might make
> paging in non-deprecated code slightly more efficient and less seeky.
> I'm not sure you would be able to measure the difference this would make
> though...

That particular optimization may not be very measurable, but having
the ability to move arbitrary functions around would make it possible
to put the most used functions together at the front of the library,
based on a desktop-wide profile. This would very likely be measurable.



Soren