On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:16 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >Hello, > >I've seen Mandrake has started compiling KDE with -fvisibility=hidden. >They say this improve load times considerably. Has this flag other >nasty consequences? Check this out, covers in detail the pros/cons of that flag, as well as other issues. The paper concentrates on shared libraries, but is applicable to general app link time issues as well. http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf > >Thanks. > -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
