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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkio & libksycoca
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2001-11-30 9:04:36
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:30:40PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> We're talking "prelinking", not "objprelinking". The FreeBSD linker guy had a 
> fix for the BSD linker that essentially had the same advantages as 
> "objprelinking", with that patch you don't need objprelinking (He send it to 
> you as well, did it go in?).

Are you talking about the relocation cache?  Yes, that made it in a while
ago.  If so, damn... it's still slow (okay, okay, I *should* switch to
-stable to get decent SMP support).

FWIW the linker guy is John Polstra - jdp.  The cvsup guy.

> "prelinking" goes even a step further and basically eliminates run-time 
> linking at all. (It becomes "installation-time linking")

Where's this done?

- alex

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