Subject: Re: ELF prebinding round 3: new method
To: Charles Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/28/2002 01:30:41
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:26:26PM +0000, Charles Hannum wrote:
>
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/junyoung/prebind-20020927.tar.gz
>
> I looked at this a bit. As I understand the code, it does two things:
>
> 1) It relocates the library to a different base address. This is what
> I talked about before. It should be fine.
Upon my experiment, relocation itself only gives 10% improvement at
best.
> So, I think this is not viable. We should look at jakub's work on
> Linux.
The basic idea is simple: all resolved references should reside in an
executable itself, even references from shared libraries it depends on.
Right?
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>