[Libreoffice] Linux plumbers 2011: large application startup slidedeck

[Caolán McNamara]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 11:17 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 09/14/2011 10:31 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > Taras Glek's slidedeck about firefox, etc. startup performance
> > http://people.mozilla.com/~tglek/lpc2011/
> >
> > Some goodies. On the relatively low-hanging fruit side of things...
> [...]
> > b) fadvise(WILLNEED) before dlopen ?
> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2010-04/msg01396.html
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11431
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554421
> 
> Covered by our pagein hackery, so given the apparent reluctance to add 
> advise to ld.so, we will have to keep it around for now...

Though the pagein list was created once, and isn't really reviewed
regularly ? There was definitely a period of a few months a year or two
ago when the pagein list contained libraries which had been removed, so
are we confident that the list that's there at the moment make sense ?

as an aside, what's the current preferred/best way for startup
measurement ?

C.