From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgvCb-00014n-EU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:26:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAT2Pwfo005508; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:25:58 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAT2O9rd022944 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:24:10 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z3so2283055nzf for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pmPoUsqBBT5dOgxoWcioWKrykqi2jHFSZEbxfY6KKzE/lZ1uIrwul3B1culigRMjnL/RMxbzlduoHyw7n43o8+LfjYj3VRuPoW6FkAK7pboQFFUUBcpgy1o0xJoHmVc636Cz8eetvlUHmSyRITlJbypB7TivpHoUtlljyYVnqto= Received: by 10.36.251.76 with SMTP id y76mr4090934nzh; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.20.13 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:09 -0800 From: Bret Towe To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc & binutils -aware hackers wanted for questions ;) In-Reply-To: <1133230210.4229.5.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1133227796.4229.2.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> <1133230210.4229.5.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAT2O9rd022944 X-Archives-Salt: e9e59427-d07c-41f4-b753-e2281516c2ea X-Archives-Hash: 472480ebd0c05479c5870a602dc81e71 On 11/28/05, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 17:56 -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > > > > > > > So, now I'm just asking for comments and/or discussion here.. would it > > > be worth the time spent on this? > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-10/msg00436.html > > > > looks interesting personally id like to see how it acts on kde also > > and some small c++ apps to see if it hurts them any > > a single benchmark for a change that would affect so much seems > > a bit silly to me > > Yeah, but before I start to spend too much time hacking on this, I'd > want to have a suggested metric and performance test setup here. If > anyone has ideas for a decent test, I'd be happy. > > As for KDE, I think modern Gnome would benefit as well, since it has > been heavily refactioned into libraries these days. http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/ you might find this interesting then was posted to lkml a day or 2 ago one think i forgot to comment on is id like to see what kind of speed prelink provides also maybe with and without this patch -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list