Re: big number of relocations in gtk2 binding

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:56 PM, muppet wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> > Our current bindings force the dynamic linker to resolve a huge  
> > number
> > of relocations as show by relinfo[1],
> > which has an impact on the startup time.
> > Maybe could we improve startup time through visbility hints and the  
> > like?
> >
> > $ relinfo.pl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread- 
> > multi/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/ 
> > Gtk2/Gtk2.so: 3525 relocations, 15 relative (0%), 3857 PLT entries,  
> > 29 for local syms (0%), 0 users
>
>
> How's this?
>
> $ relinfo.pl blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
> blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so: 293 relocations, 225 relative (76%),  
> 3848 PLT entries, 28 for local syms (0%), 0 users
>
>
> The patch hits all but one .xs file, but only to change their  
> #include lines.  All the magic is in the new header.
>
> <relocations.patch>

Oi, the 124k patch seems to have blown the mailman message size  
limit.  Try this, instead:
http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/relocations.patch


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