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Subject: Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking ( 30-50% faster startups )
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: 2001-07-26 22:24:52
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On Thursday 26 July 2001 03:01 pm, Leon Bottou wrote:
> Reading Waldo Bastian's text on C++ shared libraires gave me some ideas.
> Eventually I spent a few nights trying them.
>
> The proposed scheme modifies the object files before linking
> in a way that reduces the number of expensive relocations.
> Startup times are reduced by 30 to 50%.
Oh, that's very cool and it works remarkable easy as well. I assume that this
will cause some overhead at the time a virtual function call is made?
It might be interesting to see if the e.g. the rendering speed of libkhtml is
negatively affected by this.
Cheers,
Waldo
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