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Re: application start up and library load performance
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Robert Schweikert <rjschwei at cox dot net>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:43:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: application start up and library load performance
- References: <1045132965.18181.357.camel@triumph.rjsdomain>
Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@cox.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong list.
>
> I have a question/concern about application startup and shared library
> load performance. We have a large interactive application that uses a
> lot of shared libraries. The application startup time and the load times
> of the shared libraries on Linux is very bad when compared to W2K. I do
> not have a number for the startup time but as an example here are the
> load times for a couple of libraries.
glibc 2.3 comes with prelinking support, this will speed up normal
applications.
But it seems that your application uses dlopen, I'm not sure whether
prelinking will help there.
Andreas
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