Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. Message-ID: <199504251654.JAA07511@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9504251548.AA10160@lashley.slip.netcom.com> from "patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com" at Apr 25, 95 08:48:41 am
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> One thing that helps quite a bit, independant of object file format, > is what the Sun folks call a 'symbol hiding linker'. Basicly, it is > linker extensions that let the developer specify which symbols are to > be exported, and which ones are local to the library itself. Reducing > the final symbol table size speeds the dynamic linking at execution time. This would be VERY nice. Who adds an option to ld -X <file> Export only these symbols. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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