On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Dale Rahn wrote: > Here is a diff that was originally hatched at c2k10 and finally implemented > at k2k11. This has been tested lightly so needs to be tested on all systems > with big and small programs. > > On some machines this can shave 15% off of the startup time of large > applications with lots of dynamically loaded libraries. > > Please test and let me know if there are any problems found. > > Yes I am intentionally cross posting this to ports@ as large ports > are the most affected by this diff. > > Maybe this will finally get ajacoutot@ off my back ;)
Heh ;-) Anyway, I've been running with several variations of that diff on some machines (i386 and macppc) for several weeks without seeing any regressions. And I can confirm large beasts do benefit from it. -- Antoine
