Re: [PATCH] ld.elf_so - Cache objects checked

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 02/24/10 20:18, David Laight wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:07:03PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> Somewhere I have some code that, at program startup, generates a single
> ELF symbol table from all the libraries that are loaded at program startup.
> I did this to speed up mozilla startup.

Sounds good. Do you still have this code and can you make it available?

> Changing ld(1) to use larger symbol name hash table would help!
> (as you would get symbol hash misses, instead of finding hash chains
> with an average of 1.5 entries.)
> As would aligning the strings on 4 (or 8) byte boundaries.

These optimisations are beyond my skills.

> Also a C loop for the name compare works faster than strcmp().

I would be suprised if this would help that much here.

Thanks

Roy