prelink performance gains

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:54:06 +0200, Chris Adams wrote:
> Since you keep repeating this one: -O2 vs. -O0 has a significant
> performance gain.  The message that started this thread indicates that
> prelink may not have a significant gain anymore.  If that's the case,
> than _any_ effort is not worth the added complexity, overhead, etc. of
> prelink.

It depends, for example in this case prelink saves 33% of time (and battery):
	i=0;time while [ $i -lt 1000 ];do /usr/bin/gnome-open --help &>/dev/null;i=$[$i+1];done

The complexity may affect software development but it should not affect end
users.  End users then can benefit from the increased performance.

Here both developers want to avoid any increased software complexity and also
in some cases users suffer due to some lasting bugs (such as the cron issue).


Jan