Prelinking apps

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:53 -0400, Orlando Fiol wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:11:47PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > First is fresh, second is prelinked; not that it matters given the
> > numbers are pretty much identical.
> 
> Yes, pretty much, but not exactly.
> 
True, the prelinked application is 0.5% slower according to those
numbers ... though I expect the track Rhythmbox was playing had more
bearing on that than anything else.

>  I see better numbers in the prelinked list.
> 
Which numbers?  If you're referring to the "time needed to load objects"
that's kinda irrelevant -- that's just how long it took to haul it off
disk.

>  What if do the same with bigger apps wich need a lot of libs?
> 
Ah, well, this is why gedit is such a useful test case:

descent scott% ldd /usr/bin/gedit | wc -l
61

It's pretty much an A* GNOME app so links with every toy shared library
you'll have on your system.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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