comment on today's changes

ralf@uni-koblenz.de ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Mon Dec 28 17:39:00 GMT 1998


On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 12:04:09AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Richard and I came up with two improvements for the dynamic linking
> process which hopefully will cut the relocation time
> dramatically. Well, the ideas originally come from SGI and Sun but we
> had to reverse-engineer them and them we combined them (neither Sun
> nor SGI has the complete solution).  In a two-step development we'll

Are you speaking of Mips' Quickload feature, originally implemented for
RISC/os?  I've got docs and I think they're quite complete, if still of
interest.

  Ralf



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