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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:24:00 -0000
From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky@develer.com>
Cc: <michael.meeks@novell.com>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Large, modular C++ application performance ...
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Giovanni Bajo writes:
 > michael meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > I've been doing a little thinking about how to improve OO.o startup
 > > performance recently; and - well, relocation processing happens to be
 > > the single, biggest thing that most tools flag.
 > >
 > > Anyhow - so I wrote up the problem, and a couple of potential
 > > solutions / extensions / workarounds, and - being of a generally
 > > clueless nature, was hoping to solicit instruction from those of a more
 > > enlightened disposition.
 > >
 > > All input much appreciated; no doubt my terminology is irritatingly up
 > > the creek, hopefully the sentiment will win through.
 > >
 > > http://go-oo.org/~michael/OOoStartup.pdf

One thing I don't understand is the formula where you write linking
time is proprortional to the log of the total number of symbols.  Does
this come from drepper's paper, or somewhere else?

Andrew.