Hello Hackers The NetBSD folks have a nice improvement with the rtld-elf subsystem, known as "Negative Symbol Cache" .
http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_runtime_linker_gains_negative Roy Marples roy@ has a simple write up of the change. I took the basic idea from FreeBSD, but improved the performance drastically. Basically, the huge win is by caching both breadth and depth of the needed/weak symbol lookup. Easiest to think of a,b,c,d as a matrix and FreeBSD just cache a row where we cache both rows and columns. Has anyone looked into porting the changes back to FreeBSD ? The improvement on load time for things like firefox, openoffice, and java is huge on NetBSD. It looks like this change could improve load times on FreeBSD in the same ways. -- mark saad | [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
