Dynamic symbol table

[David Faure]

On Friday 16 July 2004 13:03, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Thursday 15 July 2004 23:09, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >
> > KDE Startup time however isn't reduced.. still 18 seconds for a cold boot..
> > while only 5 seconds for a warm start :-(
> 
> I think you need so remove 10000s of symbols to get an improvement you can 
> measure. Going from 233 to 1 is waste of your time.

ls -l $KDEDIR/lib/kde3/*.so | wc -l
657

There are 657 plugins in my KDE installation. If all of those can be stripped 
from their symbols, the improvement might start being noticeable :)

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