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Re: ld-linux and ld-funcs thoughts
- From: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- To: "sfora dim" <sfora dot dim at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:59:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: ld-linux and ld-funcs thoughts
- References: <35e5b7760705291355k77065a3fh6ebd75738f4b1ba6@mail.gmail.com> <35e5b7760705291356l6343034dt2e14ec4a3d1b58ba@mail.gmail.com>
On 29 May 2007, sfora dim told this:
> why do everything from scratch ? just for efficiency sake ?
That's not a `just'. Efficiency is *critical* for the dynamic linker,
because its overhead gets incurred on every exec() of a dynamically
linked program, far more often than the linker is run. (Robustness is
arguably more important, too.)
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