From owner-cvs-all Sat Apr 13 1:36:43 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3246837B416 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.mybox.zip ([207.214.149.50]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GUH00EJ7ZX31S@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zippy.mybox.zip (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B54A17D0; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:36:37 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/binutils - Imported sources In-reply-to: <20020413005958.A12540@host213-123-130-182.in-addr.bto> To: Dominic Marks , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20020413083636.GA634@zippy.mybox.zip> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i References: <200204121934.g3CJYhf68745@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020412214622.GC56084@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020413005958.A12540@host213-123-130-182.in-addr.bto> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:59:59AM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: > As objprelink porter/maintainer (+ help from will) I can tell you that > it's costs outway its benefits. The improvement in performance could > be described as minimal at best. It won't be used with KDE3 (its minor > speed boost becomes meaningless). I suggest just pulling it out of > your KDE build if it is causing you problems. Its not worth fighting > with it. While I agree that objprelink isn't worth the hassle, KDE3 hasn't really rendered its minor speed boost meaningless. A more worthwhile endeavor would be to start filtering what goes in a library's export table. Smaller tables == faster loading. Currently everything's exported, and given how Qt (ab)uses C++ and the piss poor way in which C++ is handled by the binutils... there are loads of useless symbols bloating the libraries. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message