I recently discovered the very nice prelink package. apt-get install prelink; prelink -a will prelink every binary on your system (in unstable at least). I was looking forward to a nice speedup in KDE, however, prelinking every KDE binary fails with the message "Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3"
So now I have some questions: Does prelinking the KDE libraries still do any good? I haven't used a stopwatch, but I don't notice any difference. Why is QT position-dependent code, and can it be made position-independent? Is it possible to get a fully prelinked KDE in Debian unstable? James for(int r=-1,c=0;r!=38;c++){if(c>r){r++;printf("\n"); for(c=38;c!=r;c--)printf(" ");c=0;}printf(~r&c?" `":" #");}