Prelinking of shared libraries

[Ulrich Drepper]

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

This is not exactly what I said.  Irix's method is not worth
implementing.  It works for them because of the broken ELF
implementation on MIPS.

I think I know pretty much what to do to implement this but it'll not
happen with the current linker.  It would tear it apart.

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