Re: question regarding prelinking (was: (inc. note from dpkg developers) (was:Bug#XXXXXX: (far too many packages) needs rebuilt for prelinking))
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 10:22 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > prelink is a program which modifies ELF shared libraries and ELF dynam-
> > ically linked binaries, so that the time which dynamic linker needs for
> > their relocation at startup significantly decreases and also due to
> > fewer relocations the runtime memory consumption decreases too (espe-
> > cially number of unshareable pages). Such prelinking information is
> > only used if all its dependant libraries have not changed since pre-
> > linking, otherwise programs are relocated normally.
>
> So Jack, can you give an example of a program where a significant amount
> of time is spent having the dynamic linker work out the correct linkage?
> ie a package that would benefit significantly from prelinking.
Konqueror has something like a 75% reduced startup time when prelinked (figure
taken from various gentoo users and kde developers).
Tom
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