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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: --enable-final again
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-29 16:49:27
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On Sat, 29 May 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
> > 
> > > limiting factor?  Code size on disk has very little (if any) bearing
> > > (within reason) on application loading and execution time.
> > 
> > According to my experience the startup time is often very much affected by
> > the number of shared libraries.
> 
> Very true. I can make for example konsole start about 20% slower on my
> system by adding -lmico2.2.6 to the link line.
> 
> Is the dynamic linker for linux very slow (as rumour say) or is it the
> same for other systems?

Well, it is not the fastest, has to do the correct versioning and traverse
the filesystem.

Does anyone know of a trick to limit the number of different shared libs
for endusers? Something like putting libjpeg, libtiff, libz and others in
a single pseudo lib?

Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
// Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
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