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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:13:10AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > What the heck does it *do* when it says "optimizing system performance"? > > Prelinks all the dynamic libraries so it doesn't have to calculate offsets > and stuff at load time. Let's see. If this speeds up loading an app by, and let's be generous here, 5 seconds. And it takes 5 minutes (300 seconds) to "optimize" system performance. You have to load the application 60 times before you get a win. Since one has to reoptimize on every installation and update one wonders if this prelinking is worth the trouble. Somebody needs to remind the Apple engineers that there's a constant associated with O(1) and sometimes its really big. Wouldn't be so bad if they did it in the background at a low priority. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxx.xxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ the chair. it wants to die. oh no! she sees me! she attacks!There's stuff above here
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