Re: Goals for 2.10 - desktop-wide profiling



On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:26 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:

> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 04:01 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> >
> >> Let's do it, and kick some low-end asses out there!
> >>
> > Tagging on the bottom; it'd also be nice to get GNOME optimising the
> > linker hash tables by default.  For the majority going "huh?" out there,
> > it's basically a way of making load times shorter without resorting to
> > the evil of prelinking.
> >
> > The way you enable it is with -Wl,-O1 in your LDFLAGS so that -O1 is
> > passed to the linker (ld).
> >
> > It's completely harmless with no runtime side-effects other than a speed
> > gain in application startup.  It may increase the build-time slightly as
> > it sits and thinks about it a bit more.
> 
> So, is that the only reason that it's not used by default?
> 
Yup, and that in general all optimisation-related flags are off by
default.  When linking something with a *lot* of symbols (e.g.
OpenOffice or Evo) this can add a few seconds to the link time.

Scott
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