Subject: Re: Reducing library searches in ld.elf_so
To: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/23/2002 00:01:38
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:57:31PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:54:56PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 September 2002 16:46, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have found that ld.elf_so does quite a number of ununcessary searches
> > > on shared objects already loaded. Searches are quite expensive, so I
> > > think it's one of the reasons why mozilla starts up so slowly. The
> > > following patch fixes the problem, hopefully:
> > 
> > I'll try it in a moment. BTW, I guess that this should also decrease load time
> > of other programs like... KDE applications... right?
> 
> Right. Mozilla, KDE, and GNOME apps could benefit from it.

$ cat mozilla.log2 | grep 'already on the list' | wc -l
     418

Wow! :-)

Jun-Young

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