[Answering to some random message in this long thread.] >>>>> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Brian Harring wrote:
> So... folks have pointed out a benefit to using --as-needed. > The benefit itself doesn't seem particularly in dispute, analyze > the fallout from it- if the best that is offered is "the spec says > otherwise", screw the spec frankly- a .01% breakage w/ 99.99% pkgs > getting a positive gain is a strong argument for doing exemptions > where needed. Speaking about statistics: Either I have missed it, or so far nobody has presented any solid numbers showing what the benefit of --as-needed in terms of memory usage or program startup time is. Could someone please show this comparison for some common programs? I've just done this for Emacs (22.2-r2), virtual set size directly after startup is 25280 and 25276 kB, for Emacs built without and with --as-needed, respectively (resident set size is 14412 and 14396 kB). I don't see any difference in startup time. But maybe Emacs is an uncommon application, or I am looking for the wrong things? Could one of the experts please shed some light on this? Ulrich -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
