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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: Ondra Tomecka <otom7630 AT lucy.troja.mff.cuni.cz>, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] prelink
  • Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:48:14 +1000

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:41, Ondra Tomecka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just read an article about Gentoo having quickly starting applications
> because of prelinking, so I checked if there is some spell in SourceMage
> which does the same, and I found nothing. That Gentoo article notes that
> prelinking changes MD5 sums of binaries (because it must change them), so
> prelinking support would most probably require support from sorcery
> scripts.
> So my question is: is there any intention for using prelink, and if so how
> is it going?
>
> Kind regards,
> Andy
>
> P.S.: the articles are http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml and
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
>
I think I would want more than a 0.08 second improvement on a pIII 733 with
128 MB ram for it to be worth it. The Kmail results seem a little extreme and
need verification
Hamish
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