ld.so optimizations

[John Reiser]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:33:55 +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> My issue is that I was annoyed with the time it takes to load
> openoffice.org. On my laptop it takes about 23 secs at the initial load.

Depending on a number of factors, there are ways to speed up symbol
resolution.  Pre-linking is one way, another is to use transfer vectors,
which do more work (and require more administration) at static bind time,
in exchange for less work and faster execution at runtime.  See
http://BitWagon.com/elfvector.html for an implementation of
ELF transfer vector for x86.

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John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com