On Thursday 26 July 2001 06:01 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%.
>
> See the attached files for details.
>
I may be confusing things but is this not about the same idea as precompiled 
headers?  It sounds similar but I could be mistaken.  Could someone please 
explane this in a little more detail?
-ian reinhart geiser
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