prelink performance gains

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> 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

I hope we can all agree that this is not useful example.

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

The complexity affects end uesrs. For example, a few years ago, a bad update
to prelink broke everyone's systems. It also affects systems like tripwire,
and even rpm -V is more fragile. Most of the concerns raised are end-user
(or sysadmin) concerns, in fact.


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