From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carsten Haitzler Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dev] Tizen 3.0 proposal for applications launch
On 10/16/2013 01:24 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On terça-feira, 15 de outubro de 2013 17:35:13, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: This is not madness. Before we had dynamic shared libraries we had static shared libraries. No runtime linking required, everything is done via table lookups. You can't delete interfaces from a static shared library, so they make development slightly more difficult. They are lots faster. a.out? I may be too young to remember. Yeah, that's pre-ELF. It's also before my day. My first Linux install still had a.out support and libc.so.4, but that was only for compatibility. ELF is a big beast, however. To speed up, I recommend prelinking libraries, executables, using techniques like ELF symbol visibility, protected visibility, -Bsymbolic, etc. i'm not so sure on prelinking. it does have perf upsides, but comes with downsides. namely ANY change of a shared lib (eg upgrade, security fix etc.) requires re-running prelink on all binaries and other shred libs that depend on it. this is costly and requires a lot of tracking. it also negates the ability to keep md5/sha1 hashes of all files in a "secure place" and compare against it to detect intrusion and hacking... :( prelink is a bit of a faustian bargain... :) But don't you have those same problems with a launcher? The launcher pre-links everything so the application doesn't get slowed by doing so. If you change a library the launcher needs to do the relinking. Granted, that's one place so it's a little bit better. And let's be clear. On a deployed phone, how often are you changing system libraries in an API incompatible way? Dynamic libraries are a boon for developers. For product they add unnecessary overhead and precious little else. See http://www.macieira.org/blog/2012/01/sorry-state-of-dynamic-libraries-on-linux/ http://www.macieira.org/blog/2012/01/update-and-benchmark-on-the-dynamic-library-proposals/ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev -- The above message is intended solely for the named addressee and may contain trade secret, industrial technology or privileged and confidential information otherwise protected under applicable law including the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the information contained in this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by email and delete this communication immediately.
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