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Subject: Re: kinit: A new way to start KDE programs!
From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date: 1999-12-26 12:49:59
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Am Son, 26 Dez 1999 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, you wrote:
(...)
> section you will see that all 'vtables' live there. Typically all these
> vtables need to be relocated. You can start an application like e.g.
> kedit as follows: "LD_DEBUG=statistics kedit" and then you will see
> that the linker needs to do 30.000 to 40.000 relocations. (38482 in my
> case) This takes about 200ms on my computer. (This is more than the
This is really interesting, on my system it looks like this:
mario@loki:~/src/KDE/2.0/kdebase LD_DEBUG=statistics kedit
28894: number of relocations: 14000
Do you have any idea why this number is so much smaller?
> 150ms stated in the readme, because kedit also links in libkspell,
> libkio and libkfile) This link time is very much a function of the
> number of relocations to be done and much less dependant on the number
> of libs to link.
>
> Putting everything in one lib does not reduce the number of required
> relocations dramatically because this lib still needs to be relocated.
> One could try to make a non-relocatable library which loads to a fixed
> address but this is rather cumbersome. Not to mention that it would
> require the recompilation of libraries out of the control of KDE. (we
> can hardly provide system/compiler dependent libs like libc and
> libstdc++)
a.out libraries can do that. Not that I want to say that we should go back to
a.out :-)
I know there is already worked on this relocation problem. I was in contact
with the person doing this, however, he was very unhelpfull when I mentioned
KDE (you know, "C++ is wrong" and such - sounds familiar?), so we can not
expect help from him.
I think there will come a solution to this, but this will take some time.
>
> The "huge" disadvantage you mention is not _that_ huge in my opinion.
> It is still possible to identify the process based on the output of ps.
> Instead of "kedit" it now gets listed as "kinit: kedit". You just can't
> use "killall -9 kedit" but have to use "kill -9 <pid>". If you use a
> program like "ktop" this is unlikely to affect you at all. You just
> need to be aware of this when working from the shell.
>
> As an advantage you can clean up your desktop with "killall -9 kinit"
> >;-) (Don't try this at home kids!)
You forgot "killall -1kinit" to restart the various helper programs, when
configuration changes, similar to inetd. And you forgot the huge advantage of
this: shared memory can be used, e.g. for caching information
Ciao,
Mario
--
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