[linux-ppc] Re: Problem compileing glibc-2.0.94

[Geoffrey KEATING]

> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:47:15 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Cort Dougan <cort@ladron.cs.nmt.edu>

> Has anyone done any comparisons of the old powerpc ld.so and the new one?
> I think that a lot of our slow startup speed shown by lmbench is from the
> current ld.so (the pre-glibc one).  I haven't been able to put together a
> glibc system yet and haven't done the comparison myself.

There's a slight performance bug in the current ppc glibc pre-2.1
ld.so---basically, it never does lazy PLT entries.  Oops.
A patch is in progress; you might want to wait for that before running
any tests.

On my system, process startup is appallingly slow anyway, because it's
MkLinux and mapping pages hasn't been optimised yet... which is why I
didn't notice.

-- 
Geoff Keating <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>