Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/groff

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:10:36PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:18:09PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > Linking against libstdc++ wastes space and time at runtime.
> 
> On-demand paging will pull only the required parts in. As I said
> earlier, the number of constructors is basically irrelevant to matter.
> So yes, this just reduces the number of semi-statically linked programs.

The size of the elf symbol and string tables may well affect
run-time performance.
(reduced pages of them, and better symbol hashing)

        David

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