Tweaking Tips

[Dan Farrell]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:06:53 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Jayson Rowe <jayson.rowe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:30:16 +0100
> > Chris.Masih at crawco.co.uk wrote:
> >
> >> does anyone have any tips on stopping unnecessary services etc on
> >> start up or
> >> removing other stuff in ubuntu? i would like to know how to have a 
> >> stripped down 
> >> system thats very fast
> >>
> > You might try using prelink to pre-link your binaries with their
> > required libraries. 
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> From what I understand, pre-linking is no longer required since 7.04
> (and could perhaps be detremental?) Apparently Fiesty and beyond new
> linking mechanism called DT_GNU_HASH which speeds up the linking
> process without the need for prelink.
> 
> -jayson
> 

Interesting!  From the looks of it, this is a link-time option with
later versions of ld that can potentially drop load times by 50%.