Prelinking of shared libraries

[David S. Miller]

Andreas Jaeger writes:
 > I'm currently looking into what needs to be done to implement
 > prelinking in glibc (I'm not volunteering yet ;-) and whether it would
 > really help.

IRIX does prelinking, Uli and others looked into it, and the result
if I remember correctly is that the added complexity nullified much
of the performance gain.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com