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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:16:58
Message-Id: 201002141615.50218.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > However. ELF is analogous (with the exception that you don't
4 > > have one or two binary apps), and nothing is stopping you from
5 > > building everything statically, or still using .a
6 >
7 > Actually, if libraries hadn't been grown that extremly fat,
8 > but instead using small tailored ones and moving the redundant
9 > complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at
10 > all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can
11 > startup much faster).
12 >
13 >
14 > cu
15
16 startup time is not dependet on the size, harddisks are way too fast - but
17 symbol resolution. More libs, more work to resolve them, longer startup times.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>