Prelinking is GOOD!!!!

zeky · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: Prelinking is GOOD!!!!

...so USE it!

Thank you

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I already use it. :p

tehjap · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 70 Location: MS

prelink is amazing. the difference isn't just a subtle one, it's waaay faster!

ed0n · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject:

prelink is not good.

Its _great_

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theCheat · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Atlanta

What packages do you see the greatest speed increases with?
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codergeek42 · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

Seriously, prelinkingmake O.o Writer load in just over 2 seconds, whereas it took like 10 seconds to load when I used FC1 on the same box a few months ago...

and X (Prelinking + X.org + 2.6.5-gentoo kernel) seems to load up way fast. (like it says "Loading entrranced..." and then the screen flickers for a split second, then the NVIDIA logo comes up (btw, is there a way to disable ti while still using their openGL drivers?), then the entrance screen comes upand I get to login to Enlightenment, which takes not even 5 seconds to fully load. Amazing stuff!
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MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

prelinking has adramatic effect on KDE/QT apps. It is fantastic.
It takes a bit long for the first KDE app to start, then on the next app will come on nearly instantaniously. Which is fantastic becuase i start klipper in openbox, and that loads kde stuff and when i start kate or kwrite it starts instantly

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zeroK · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject:

Stupid question but when I update a library which previously has been prelinked into an app, will this app cease to work or will it just fallback into "shared mode"?

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HydroSan · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:

I notice Mozilla, XINE and OpenOffice both open and seemingly operate a lot faster. NTPL 4 lyfe.
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MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

One thing though, does OOo binary work with prelink? or is it just the source?
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Hypnos · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:07 am Post subject:

Prelinking has not impressed me. Then again, I run GNOME (nearly all C, not C++), and I have a slow hard disk (4200RPM notebook disk) which allows the CPU to dynamically link to a library while loading the next into memory.
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Ian · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:51 am Post subject:

I can never get prelinking to work. It always spits out tons of errors, and I have to change it back. :\

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MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

MooktaKiNG · Guru Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 326 Location: London, UK

I haven't had any problems with prelinking so far.

I don't see any reason to 'reverse' prelinking. I don't think many people would notice it if it were enable by default

I like prelinking, it speeds some apps up a lot.
But not everything. Thats no reason to stop using it though, becuase i have seen had anything being broken becuase of it, or i have ever heard of anyone had anything broken becuase of it.

but anyway, its upto the individuals

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Hypnos · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

codergeek42 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:11 am Post subject:

senectus · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 534

I hear said that it breaks WineX... :-(

I use WineX too much for me to break it..
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Ian · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject:

Just out of curiosity, is it possible to set the ebuilds to prelink their compiled programs at the end? I know it's hard to merge into every ebuild, but maybe just add it in as ebuilds are updated? Hell, you could even control it with a USE flag (USE="prelink"). It's a neat idea, not sure how easy it is to do though.