ELF Binary Stripper?

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:27 PM +0100 10/12/05, Ron Yorston wrote:
>Chris Stark wrote:
>>If the benefits and rationale for using prelink are documented anywhere,
>>I sincerely would be interested in viewing this. Otherwise, the claim of
>>it significantly speeding anything up is made moot by the fact that the
>>system is virtually unusable when prelink is running.
>
>Jakub Jelinek has written as much as anyone could wish to know about
>prelink.  The PDF is available on an FC4 system as:
>
>   /usr/share/doc/prelink-0.3.4/prelink.pdf
>
>One of the first things I do with a newly installed Red Hat system is
>turn off prelink, and turn on updatedb.  IMHO prelink is a hugely over-
>engineered solution to a minor problem.  Shaving 1.8s from the start up
>time of OOo doesn't seem worth it.  Especially when it's sucking all the
>power out of my laptop battery and turning it into noise and hot air.

It saves memory too, by reducing COW pages caused by relocations.
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