[OE-core] Prelink problems -- need help!

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 11:45 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 
> 
> While some of the modern hashing techniques and such do improve run
> -time dynamic
> link performance, there is still a hit that we must take.  For
> devices that need
> quick boot times, quick startup, or are memory constrained, the
> prelinker can
> still help.  (Memory usage on very small systems is a good example. 
>  Memory
> usage can be reduced in larger applications by reducing the number of
> Copy-on-write pages required to handle the relocation information.)

Do you have any concrete data on how much of a boot time speedup,
and/or what reduction in dirty pages, you see on a modern image with
prelink versus the same image without?

p.