Bug#176189: openoffice.org prelinking - is it really much faster?
On Mit, 2003-01-15 at 12:26, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:17:50AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:10:09AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >I prelinked the openoffice.org binaries with
> > >
> > >prelink --ld-library-path=/usr/lib/openoffice/program -m /usr/lib/openoffice/
> > >
> > >and it seems to start up significantly faster the first time. It would be
> > >nice if this was done automatically in the background when (new) binaries
> > >got installed, if the prelink package is installed.
> >
> > The prelinken was one thing, I wanted to look for to speed up
> > OpenOffice.org.
> > Its already on my todo list.
>
> Well, I tested the prelinking out and didn't see any significat speedup in
> load time. And Michael Meeks said..
> 11:12 <@michael_> haggai: when I looked at this the pre-linking page said it wasn't worth doing with a modern ld.so / gcc
> 11:17 <@michael_> haggai: a KDE chap says - "The library loader that comes with SuSE 8.0 has changes which effectively cause the same level of improvement ..."
>
> Michel, can you provide some statistics to support your claim that it is
> faster when prelinked?
I'll try to come up with that.
> Remember that the first time OOo loads it will take significantly longer
> whether it is prelinked or not, because the files are not cached in memory.
I know, that's why I said 'the first time'.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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