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Re: Well, that's interesting.
- To: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Well, that's interesting.
- From: Mark Galassi <rosalia@lanl.gov>
- Date: 10 Jun 1999 14:59:54 -0600
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com>, Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj-pc.nada.kth.se>, Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>, Guile Discussion <guile@cygnus.com>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906092356250.3252-100000@se232.math.indiana.edu>
Lynn> This sort of thing would best be in the dynamic linker,
Lynn> not the compiler. It would be in a position to dynamically
Lynn> adjust it as the need arose, rather than attempting to do
Lynn> statically what is an inherently dynamic optimization.
I don't think anyone mentioned the compiler; Ulrich was talking about
glibc for function calls within glibc.
I don't think you can do it at runtime, since the dynamic linker would
take a long time to do a stochastic search through the parameter space
before loading libraries.