Why modify the executable?
Why modify the executable?
Posted Jul 20, 2009 18:14 UTC (Mon) by oak (guest, #2786)In reply to: Why modify the executable? by nix
Parent article: Is pre-linking worth it?
> on my KDE 3.5.10 system here, kio_http (a shared library itself) and
dependent libraries contain a total of 48929 symbols with an average
length of 31.9. (...). You can expect a nonprelinked KDE program to use a
meg or so of extra dirty nonshareable memory just for the relocations
dependent libraries contain a total of 48929 symbols with an average
length of 31.9. (...). You can expect a nonprelinked KDE program to use a
meg or so of extra dirty nonshareable memory just for the relocations
I would expect that many symbols to take several megs nonshareable memory
for the relocations per process...?