[fedora-java] OOo Performance?

[Andrew Haley]

Caolan McNamara writes:
 > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:36 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Caolan McNamara writes:
 > >  > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:42 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > >  > > Here are the profile data without any symbols.  As you can see, it's
 > >  > > mostly the shared library loader.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Nearly all of OOo's startup and timing woes boil down to shared library
 > >  > relocations :-(. Hence the redhat custom swriter/scalc/sdraw
 > >  > prelink-friendly launchers, and the novell -Bdirect work. Not much we
 > >  > can do inside OOo to help such dlopened stuff I guess.
 > > 
 > > Does dlopened stuff not work with prelinking?
 > 
 > No, from prelink/doc/prelink.tex
 > 
 > "
 > As has been mentioned earlier, prelink cannot speed up loading shared
 > libraries using dlopen, since it cannot predict in which order and what
 > shared libraries will be loaded (and thus cannot compute conflict
 > fixups).
 > "

Mmm, but there's nothing to stop us building OOo with -lgcj, is there?
If we do that, dlopen() will find the prelinked library.

Andrew.