Piecemeal library loading causes slow startup of big apps

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Lorenzo Colitti]
>> as my google SoC project I have been working on improving GNOME
>> startup time, and I see that dynamic linking is one of the culprits.
> 
> Are you aware of the efforts in fedora, gentoo, ubuntu and debian to
> improve the boot speed?

I am aware of some efforts, perhaps not all of them. The most recent I 
am aware of is preload (http://preload.sourceforge.net/).

However, from what I have seen these solutions are more specific than 
what I am suggesting, and less applicable to other things such as 
application startup (e.g. firefox). Furthermore, these solutions use 
closed-loop feedback (e.g. "training" during the boot process), which is 
not required in cases like these.


Regards,
Lorenzo