Re: Gtk2 1.210 (unstable) available

[Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au>]

Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com> writes:
> well, if a compiler optimization brings a 7% startup speedup, it would
> be considering amazing.

I wonder if the time might be the loader looking up less symbols
dynamically.  There could be an "ld -Bsymbolic" to resolve some of that
with the linker.  But the compiler of course may get rid of GOT/PLT bits
altogether.