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Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le mercredi 11 mai 2005 à 13:35 -0300, Humberto Massa a écrit :
>> Imagine that, to load Konqui, you have to go 200 times to the disk (ok, 
>> cache, but...), each of them reading the 10000 entries I have in 
>> /usr/lib, some of them twice or three times, to follow the symlinks.
>> 
>> This is a real inefficiency.
>
> You said it: there is a cache. After the first access, the directory
> will be in the cache. Making all of this a purely imaginary problem.

The whole directory is in the cache?  I don't think so.  Remember,
that in between each lookup, a library gets searched, which probably
flushes the entire cache.




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