On 29 Jul 2005, Florian Weimer announced authoritatively: > * michael meeks: > >> I've been doing a little thinking about how to improve OO.o startup >> performance recently; and - well, relocation processing happens to be >> the single, biggest thing that most tools flag. > > Have you tried prelinking?
Prelinking is mentioned near the start of the paper and was actually implemented with OOo (and KDE) in mind. Alas, it's ineffective for dlopen()ed objects, and OOo dlopen()s nearly everything. (To my mind the solution is `don't do that then; DT_NEEDED has a purpose dammit'... certainly this is less disruptive than a change to the C++ ABI, requiring cooperation with other vendors and a rebuild of the entire known C++ universe yet again! But I am but an egg in these waters.) -- `Tor employs several thousand editors who they keep in dank subterranean editing facilities not unlike Moria' -- James Nicoll
