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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: exporting symbols (was Re: The goodness of goodness)
From:       Michael Matz <matz () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-29 18:50:04
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Hi,

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I never got around at
> > implementing this thing last year, cause I wasn't able to convinve myself,
> > that the number of reduced relocation really would be worth it.
>
> I predict that it will not influence the number of relocations :-]

Well, I wasn't _that_ pessimistic ;)  There _are_ private methods and
classes which are for internal purposes, and these can be hidden
alltogether.  Esp. in KLM's representing whole applications most
classes/methods are "internal".  If these symbols are made DSO-local ld
can bind references to them at link time, which reduces the number of
symbol-based relocations quite a bit, so KLM loading could be even faster.


Ciao,
Michael.

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