Prelinking apps

[Orlando Fiol]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:22:38PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
[...]
> 
> descent scott% LD_DEBUG=statistics /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/bin/gedit
>      19055:
>      19055:     runtime linker statistics:
>      19055:       total startup time in dynamic loader: 95427223 clock cycles
>      19055:                 time needed for relocation: 87261064 clock cycles (91.4%)
>      19055:                      number of relocations: 2720
>      19055:           number of relocations from cache: 2599
>      19055:                time needed to load objects: 7556171 clock cycles (7.9%)
>      19055:
>      19055:     runtime linker statistics:
>      19055:                final number of relocations: 9238
>      19055:     final number of relocations from cache: 3511
> 
[...]
> Compare a fresh Ubuntu system with a prelinked one.
	
	Which one is fresh and which one prelinked?

> 

> descent scott% LD_DEBUG=statistics /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/bin/gedit
>      19314:
>      19314:     runtime linker statistics:
>      19314:       total startup time in dynamic loader: 90071299 clock cycles
>      19314:                 time needed for relocation: 82785218 clock cycles (91.9%)
>      19314:                      number of relocations: 2720
>      19314:           number of relocations from cache: 2599
>      19314:                time needed to load objects: 6686188 clock cycles (7.4%)
>      19314:
>      19314:     runtime linker statistics:
>      19314:                final number of relocations: 9279
>      19314:     final number of relocations from cache: 3511
>