On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:13:45PM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > The compiler can't optimize if the symbols are called inter-module either.
If it knows they're hidden, it can. And it clearly can optimize things if you mark them static so it knows they're not called inter-module. > And seriously, do you REALLY think that any changes the compiler makes at > that level will have measurable performance impacts ?. > There are good reasons to hide parts of the API that you don't want used by > external code - hiding symbols to improve performance is a big stretch. Even when just hiding it in the linker there is a difference. I can't seem to find the numbers anymore, so I can't say it's significant. But I would already be happy with just hiding it in the linker like I've been doing in Debian. It already resulted in people stopping using private symbols. Kurt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
