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Re: question regarding prelinking (was: (inc. note from dpkg developers) (was:Bug#XXXXXX: (far too many packages) needs rebuilt for prelinking))



On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:27:57AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
The linking inself (that is, looking up 20000 entries in symbol tables) is noot that long on modern hardware. It may be done in a second or so.

The benefit comes when you start a lot of processes in rapid succession.

Seems that thing that really makes startups SLOW is swapping.

Yeesh, buy some RAM. :)

Mike Stone



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