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Re: Prelinking of shared libraries
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Prelinking of shared libraries
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 05 May 2001 22:53:21 -0700
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <hoae4tvafc.fsf@gee.suse.de><15090.25107.547554.197469@pizda.ninka.net>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
> IRIX does prelinking, Uli and others looked into it, and the result
> if I remember correctly is that the added complexity nullified much
> of the performance gain.
This is not exactly what I said. Irix's method is not worth
implementing. It works for them because of the broken ELF
implementation on MIPS.
I think I know pretty much what to do to implement this but it'll not
happen with the current linker. It would tear it apart.
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