Binutils prelink: anyone?

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

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On Monday 14 January 2002 21:30, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> being bothered by KDE startup slowness, I was wondering if anyone
> is using the prelinking utility that has been developed by Jakub Jelinek
> for inclusion in the binutils... 

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>
> PS: I'm still hoping to see KDE running at a decent speed on
> my old computer, a P200 with 96MB of RAM... when I bought my
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

People,

This is some important point. Are there any people working on performance 
issues in kde core? Charles had told me that the two bottlenecks were:
1) dynamic linker
2) XML UI

There is some article about it, too.

It takes multiple seconds to start a simple file/web browser. Anything that 
takes more than 100msec feels non-interactive to a human. I was myself 
thinking of looking at XML UI, but obj prelinking is way beyond my interests. 
Does the utility mentioned have any use now? I remember some heated 
discussions and other people pointing to ld.so prelink configuration. What is 
the best solution at the moment for bottleneck 1, and is there anybody 
interested in bottleneck 2?

(I'm telling you XML is slow, nobody's listening. Check your mozilla code to 
see some real slowness)


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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
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