Noah L. Meyerhans said: > I'm surprised there isn't anything on the web about this. I just > searched google and altavista (remember them?) but came up with nothing. > > In any case, loading shared libraries is slow. Compiling everything > statically would be much faster, but you'd sacrifice huge amounts of disk > space. Preloading helps to work around the performance hit you take when > using dynamically loaded libraries by getting ld.so to load the libraries > prior to runtime, so it doesn't have to work as hard when you're actually > running the program. > > It might be interesting to see a side by side comparison of something big > like mozilla or gnumeric with and without preloading. I suppose if such a > thing already existed we'd have found it in our web searches...
sounds interesting, i think I will play with this preload more :) thanks! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
