Re: Large, modular C++ application performance ...

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Giovanni Bajo writes:
 > michael meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > I've been doing a little thinking about how to improve OO.o startup
 > > performance recently; and - well, relocation processing happens to be
 > > the single, biggest thing that most tools flag.
 > >
 > > Anyhow - so I wrote up the problem, and a couple of potential
 > > solutions / extensions / workarounds, and - being of a generally
 > > clueless nature, was hoping to solicit instruction from those of a more
 > > enlightened disposition.
 > >
 > > All input much appreciated; no doubt my terminology is irritatingly up
 > > the creek, hopefully the sentiment will win through.
 > >
 > > http://go-oo.org/~michael/OOoStartup.pdf

One thing I don't understand is the formula where you write linking
time is proprortional to the log of the total number of symbols.  Does
this come from drepper's paper, or somewhere else?

Andrew.