Re: Number of dynamically linked libraries (Was: Re: Gtk+4.0)

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On 22/06/16 13:14, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> Time for another Project Ridley?

Maybe; or maybe the benefit of those 30 extra libraries outweighs their
cost (CPUs are faster now than in the GNOME 2 days after all), but we
still shouldn't introduce more without good reasons.

If there is a compelling advantage to splitting up libraries, of course,
by all means do so.

> And it doesn't count the dlopen'ed libraries, like for the GIO extension
> points.

The application potentially has an opportunity to provide feedback to
the user before it loads all of those, at least.

"Properly linked" hard dependencies seem likely to be a bigger issue for
GUI responsiveness than dlopen'd modules and *their* dependencies,
because we can't display anything (not even an empty window) until ld.so
has finished thinking about the relocations for hard dependencies, and
handed over control to main().

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Simon McVittie
Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.com/>