On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:06:27AM -0500, alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What order of performance degradation to expect? If it is minor, nobody is
> going to cry about it. My old RH 7.3 systems don't have prelinking, and I
> don't see them being any slower than FC2 and newer systems that have
> prelinking...
As I understand it, the biggest impact will be on startup times for big C++
applications -- KDE and Mozilla, maybe OpenOffice.org. I haven't tested
extensively, but here we turn off prelinking for exactly this reason.
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