Subject: Re: RelCache (aka ELF prebinding) news
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/01/2002 23:44:01
kpneal@pobox.com writes:
> Ok, I'll ask a stupid question: 
> 
> If the unique identifier for the executable (and libraries?) is generated
> at prebind time (or link time) then the time required to generated
> this ID should be small but isn't a critical issue.

MD5 hashing all your libraries on a Vax will be quite painful, even if
you only do it once in a while. Running RC4 a few dozen times ill
not. Why chew CPU for no reason?

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com