On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:23:15PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote: > Linking against libcapstone and libLLVM can be a significant increase > in dependencies and size of memory footprint. For something like `perf > record` the disassembler and addr2line functionality won't be > used. Support dynamically loading these libraries using dlopen and > then calling the appropriate functions found using dlsym. It's unclear to me what this actually fixes. If the code is not used it should not be faulted in and the dynamic linker is lazy too, so if it's not used, it won't even be linked. I don't see any numbers, but it won't surprise me if it improved actual run time or memory usage significantly. -Andi
