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Re: How would *you* use an intern?
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:29:46AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > Linking files residing on an NFS-Server often gives me a load of < 5%
> > with a most significant amount of iowait, even on a fast network.
> >
> > I assume this could be improved by de-serializing the link process?
>
> Yeah. The linking process is highly parallelizable. Loading objects
> is, resolving symbols is, laying them out in memory isn't, relocating
> is, writing out the executable isn't (well, might be).
I don't think you can load objects/resolve symbols in parallel, at
least not with ELF.
H.J.