Hi Andreas,
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:33 +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
Well, but that was a rather rough-shot reply, and your reply to that (if it was valid) was quite important, so for now it seems he doesn't have too much of a point here.
So my personal feeling (having never used it) is that prelink is a pain to setup, maintain, get distros running with, fragments the disk etc. etc. ;-) [ but this is all 2nd hand angst ].
Not to mention that application startup time still *is* a bottleneck on Linux, so there should be more effort to reduce that. I want to keep using my 450MHz box for some more decades ;)
BTW, did you do some oprofile runs of app startup?
Well - valgrind / cachegrind - sure. You can get some pretty graphical pictures with do_lookup_x chewing 1/2 the screen ;-) [ and some after pictures with it burning way less of the screen ] - and it's all data access problems; L1 & L2 cache misses all over the shop.
Regards,
Michael.