brian.lu wrote:
> Hi, experts,
>
> We met a problem when tuning firefox startup performance. The issue is:
> NSPR shared library (which is used by Firefox) exports an interface (a
> function name) to the applications (like Firefox). Applications can
> provide a implementation of that function to override some
> function provided by NSPR. Firefox doesn't use that interface. I.e. it
> doesn't define that symbol.
>
> But every time, when firefox starts, NSPR lookups that symbol by using
> dlsym(). That takes some time and fails finally. We can't modify the
> NSPR codes
> because it is not part of firefox code base.
But firefox ships it's own copy of NSPR, so isn't it effectively part of
the firefox code base?
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