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Striking gold in binutils
Striking gold in binutils
Posted Mar 26, 2008 19:18 UTC (Wed) by mto (subscriber, #24123)In reply to: Striking gold in binutils by elanthis
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils
Won't this, in the long run, affect load times for applications? dynamically linked applications need to be linked twice: once right after compile, and a second time at run time. If gold could eventually replace ld.so and run 5 times faster, the impact is pretty big...
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Striking gold in binutils
Posted Mar 26, 2008 20:44 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It can't replace ld.so. The dynamic and static linkers have quite different (although related) jobs, and have very different goals as well (e.g. performance is utterly paramount for ld.so but less so for ld). The only system which has even *tried* to merge the two is AIX, and I think even it gave up in the end.