Subject: Re: "filtered" shared libraries
To: None <collver@linuxfreemail.com>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/2001 15:53:59
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:45:40AM -0800, collver@linuxfreemail.com wrote:
> http://devresource.hp.com/STK/impacts/i720.html
> 
> ``Filtered Libraries: Filtered shared libraries divide up a large library
>   into one filter and several implementation libraries. The user links
...
> Sounds like a cool idea, does ld.so already do this?
	I think you could probably do this by linking an empty library
against each of the implementation pieces.  However, I'm not certain that
ld.so doesn't load all libraries when the "filter" one is loaded.  (which
would kill any performance gains)
	Is anyone actually using the hp filtered libraries?  How much does 
it affect performance?

eric