Re: Performance hit: symlinks
On Monday 17 February 2003 10:18, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and
> qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a
> symlink would this create overhead a human would notice?
You most probably wouldn't notice, but there would be an overhead. After the
second access however, the link lookup would be cached and very fast.
Be aware though that QT doesn't like to be shoved around. It _must_ be
reachable at the location it was first installed/compiled, be it through a
link or directly.
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