Martin S. Weber wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:55:40AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:25:21PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > No, dynamically linked binaries are loaded (much) slower than
> > > statically linked ones, since symbol resolution is usually taking
> > > quite a lot of time.
> >
> > Wasn't there something about a sort of preresolving of shared library
> > symbols in the binary, so symbol resolution would be fast until the
> > shared library changed? Care to teach me what that was all about?
>
> prebind(1) as written by Bang Jun-Young. I've tested it successfully, yet
> it used to burn quite some hd space for its own cache. Honestly I haven't
> heard anything more about it after the latest successful tests, was
> wondering also where it went :)

It needs to be ported to other platforms than i386 before it's checked in. 
And I wasn't sure if other developers liked it, since there was the only 
one (= you) that gave me comments on how it worked and helped testing, 
IIRC.

Jun-Young