On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:24:18PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > For starters, the number of libraries given binary is linked too is > completely and utterly irrelevant :) The change NetBSD guys claims to > revolutionize his application startup times only applies to programs > that dlopen (read - load dynamically) libraries with long largely > identical dependency chains and calls dlsym on them many, many > thousand times. I do not think you will find any real app out there > that fits this description close enough to actually demonstrate the > effect of the change that is distinguishable from the statistical noise. > Pressing ^C certainly not precise enough for that.
(1) The program itself needs to have a large enough number of linked libraries. (2) The program needs to dlopen() modules. (3) The program needs to search for missing symbols often enough. >From memory, the real world example that fulfilled all three cases was Evolution. (1) and (2) are pretty typical though. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
