On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:04:11AM +0100, John Haxby wrote: > Prelink helps start up time, it won't make the app run faster once it's > actually got going. This is not entirely true with the latest prelink C++ optimizations, as in prelinked program virtual tables in shared libraries might contain addresses of methods directly while without prelink they might contain addresses of .plt slot in the binary which will then actually call the methods. But the difference is not really big, only a few instructions per virtual method call. Jakub
