Re: Hardcoding of .la file paths in .la files
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:48:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Often worse, due to the dramatically increased amount of data which
> must be loaded from disk in a cold-cache situation. Another 800K of
> glibc you've got to read in. The memory usage sucks too.
That's glibc. It's already in memory. This is not necessarily the case
for less widespread libs. Depending on the contents of the .a, and the
number of functions actually used, you might end up reading in less data
from disk, and also save on filesystem and dynamic symbol lookup. I'm
not advocating to link in glibc statically. I'm advocating to leave it
up to the users to pick their preferred method of linking, and not put
up extra hurdles.
> Prelinking is now available on almost all Debian architectures, so I'm
> not sure what you mean.
I'm referring to
% apt-cache showsrc prelink | grep Architecture
Architecture: alpha i386 powerpc
I'm glad to hear that support for further architectures is apparently
getting along. Still, this whole prelink issue is tangent to the main
point: There are valid reasons for static linking, and I oppose the
blanket statement that we should deprecate this method.
Daniel.
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