On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:11:11AM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote: > >From what I've read it seems that prelinking is usually touted for it's > ability to improve the startup times of X applications. (These > applications often have many, many calls to external libraries.) > > Is there any point in using prelink on a system only runs console > applications? Yes, it speeds up all programs, not just GUI programs. How much varries from program to program, e.g. for some shell scripts (gcc configure) I've measured 7% speedup. For details see ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink.pdf Jakub -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
