From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 25 09:54:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA00466 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:45 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA00460 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:44 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA07511; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:07 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504251654.JAA07511@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. To: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504251548.AA10160@lashley.slip.netcom.com> from "patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com" at Apr 25, 95 08:48:41 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 636 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 Export only these symbols. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'