comments on KDE performance tips

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Monday 13 January 2003 15:03, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:28:05AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> > On Monday January 13, 2003 06:13, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > > Any page on compilation should also mention objprelink.
> > >
> > > Nope, it shouldn't. Its a bad hack, that makes the common case slower,
> > > and cases unreproduceable crash reports. If we educate somebody, we
> > > should educate them using the right approach, not bad hacks :)
> >
> > And what's the alternative?  Tell them to learn a foreign language while
> > waiting for KDE apps to load?
>
> new binutils (with combreloc) + a new glibc.
> i.e, any of the new distributions.
>
Also the new generic prelink tool. I just got the package for Debian and have 
prelinked qt and parts of KDE. The results are really good even though my 
build is already combreloc'ed.

`Allan