comments on KDE performance tips

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On 15 Jan 2003 at 11:30, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:36, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > Are there any tricks from freeBSD land need to be ported to linux? I can
> > not imagine a faster KDE than it is on freeBSD.
> 
> I know freeBSD has some linker fixes (in effect equivalent to the objprlnk 
> hack) I don't know if that can explain it because I don't know which 
> linker/binutils Mandrake 9 uses.

>From one of the mandrake 9.0 boxes here..
[shridhar@agra shridhar]$ rpm -qa |grep -i binutil
libbinutils2-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk
binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk
[shridhar@agra shridhar]$ which ld
/usr/bin/ld
[shridhar@agra shridhar]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/ld
binutils-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk
[shridhar@agra shridhar]$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.12.90.0.15 20020717
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
[shridhar@agra shridhar]$

but 100 is bit too much to check. When mandrake moved to gcc3.2 with mandrake 
9.0 and included obj-prelink, even then the difference was not so great between 
mandrake8.2 and mandrake9.0.


Bye
 Shridhar

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