From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 27 23:26:14 2001
From: Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:26:14 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking (new version and results)
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On Friday 27 July 2001 04:23 pm, Martijn Klingens wrote:

> On Saturday 28 July 2001 01:07, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Friday 27 July 2001 03:30 pm, Leon Bottou wrote:
> > > My machine is now running objprelinked qt, kdelibs and kdebase.
> > > On kdelibs, the number of R_386_32 went from 54216 to 15085.
> > > It feels noticeable faster.  But I would like much faster than that
> > > :-). Some day I should try again with lazy binding.
> >
> > I think we should seriously consider to use this for KDE 2.2 by
> > integrating it into the build system. I had one report though that it
> > failed with libqt-mt (which links against pthreads) any idea what could
> > be going on there?

If we can't get it to work right in time, maybe we could wrap it in a 
shellscript that tests if it crashed, and if so, moves the backup .o back in 
place?

-Charles