Subject: Re: New idea on ELF prebinding
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Joel Wilsson <joelw@unix.se>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/23/2002 08:58:30
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:57:05AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:29:22PM +0100, Joel Wilsson wrote:
> 
> > I know this lies in the (hopefully not very distant) future, but my first
> > thought is that this information would be ideal to store in an extended
> > attribute in UFS2.
> 
> Uhh, I realy hope we still would be able to (fast) execute binaries from
> things like CD-ROM.
> 
> Martin

I don't see why anyone who cares about performance would run programs like
KDE and Mozilla, which really benefit from prebinding, from a CD-ROM (or any
kind of optical disc for that matter), but you do have a point.