Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-12-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> my grandparents sent me their ThinkNIC, > I was shocked on how fast it booted up X, I guess its because its > so stripped down(I upgraded it to 128MB from 64MB), but was wondering > if the preloading of stuff had much to do with it, Xvesa starts up very fast indeed (for many reasons, including

Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-11-21 Thread nate
Noah L. Meyerhans said: > I'm surprised there isn't anything on the web about this. I just > searched google and altavista (remember them?) but came up with nothing. > > In any case, loading shared libraries is slow. Compiling everything > statically would be much faster, but you'd sacrifice hug

Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-11-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:57:27PM -0800, nate wrote: > running a couple google searches I can't find anything useful, I > was wondering if anyone could explain what the advantage is to > preloading libraries on a linux system. I'm surprised there isn't anything on the web about this. I just sear

OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-11-21 Thread nate
running a couple google searches I can't find anything useful, I was wondering if anyone could explain what the advantage is to preloading libraries on a linux system. my grandparents sent me their ThinkNIC, which I am doing some mods to, and was looking at the init scripts and saw this: # preloa