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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:19:11 +0200
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading
Message-ID:  <4C7D2B7F.7080207@netfence.it>
In-Reply-To: <20100831143545.GB5913@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <4C7CF944.7030709@netfence.it> <20100831143545.GB5913@dan.emsphone.com>

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Il 08/31/10 16:35, Dan Nelson ha scritto:
> In the last episode (Aug 31), Andrea Venturoli said:
>> Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to
>> run tests in a makefile).  This executables spend most of its time loading
>> (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared
>> libraries.
>
> Link your program statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely.

Then my binary would be more than 200MB and it wouldn't load that fast 
either.
Besides I have several binaries using the same libraries and linking 
them all statically would take up a lot more time.

  bye & Thanks anyway
	av.



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