Why modify the executable?
Why modify the executable?
Posted Jul 15, 2009 22:48 UTC (Wed) by pynm0001 (guest, #18379)In reply to: Why modify the executable? by nix
Parent article: Is pre-linking worth it?
A couple of small quibbles: Although KDE downloads webpages through a separate process, it does not necessarily have to fork one for every link visited. Existing kio_http processes (procs, not shared libs) are retained for some amount of time after they've been forked in case they are needed to be reused.
kdeinit existed before prelink, although essentially to fix the same problem.
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