[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

Pete Ryland pdr at createservices.com
Thu Feb 10 15:22:56 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:38:22PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Nick Richards prattled cheerily:
> > Cool, thanks for the explanation/difference thing, it was instructive!
> 
> The prelink paper at <http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink.pdf> is
> fascinating for the sheer number of hoops it has to jump through to do
> this job. (Not as fascinating as the valgrind paper, though. *That* is
> mind-boggling.)

This approach is not effective for KDE any more.  Apparently, "this is no
longer the case because newer runtime linkers perform much better in that
respect." [http://objprelink.sourceforge.net/]

Pete
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