[Gllug] Apple

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 16 Jan Tethys wrote:
> >You save about 40,000 relocations with OOo-1.1, and about half of the
> >startup time. (Writable page count will fall considerably as well, but
> >I've not had a look to see how much.)
> 
> Just curious... how can you do relocations in advance unelss you know
> where it's going to be loaded (which presumably, you don't). Without a
> Windows-like scheme where programs are linked to be loaded at a given
> location (and hence only need relocation if that location is unavailable),
> then I don't see how you can reduce load time relocations.

AIUI prelinking works exactly like that :)  Libraries are assigned a
preferred address, and only relinked if those addresses are unavailable.

doug.

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