Re: big number of relocations in gtk2 binding

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 13:45 -0500, muppet wrote:

> > 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

Nice.  With this applied, I see a 9% size reduction of the shared object
(11MiB -> 10MiB, with debugging symbols) and a 7% start speedup (0.067s
-> 0.062s, measured via timing many runs of `perl -MGtk2 -e'exit'Â).

I had to add one more closing parentheses at the end of the definition
of __hidden__ to make it compile, though.

If defined, we could use G_GNUC_INTERNAL (from glib >= 2.6).

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten