On Monday 12 September 2005 21:58, nordi wrote: > Strictly speaking, preloading does not make your system faster. You > _still_ need to load the data from harddisk. But it is done so that the > user doesn't feel it, making the system _feel_ faster.
I doesn't only "feel" faster. The improvement of application's startup time can be measured: http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_standard_benchmark For the original poster: Prelinking reduces the work the linker has to do during startup of an application. Preloading reduces the loading time of applications. Above benchmarks have shown that preloading improved startup times and prelinking didn't. Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
