Re: Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lately Matthew Dillon told:

>     I think the code in the patch is excellent, but I am not convinced
>     that prebinding is worth doing.  Are there arguments for doing the
>     prebinding other then performance?  Maybe someone could measure
>     startup times for something huge, like KDE, with and without
>     prebinding.

no, prebinding is sole for performance. I don't have KDE on my system,
but I'd expect a noticable startup (as you do under linux and
prelinking)

cheers
  simon


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