[Libreoffice] Linux plumbers 2011: large application startup slidedeck

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 09/14/2011 11:48 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> 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 ?

Guess no (not well maintained).  So, sure, a more generic approach would 
be better, not the least from a maintenance viewpoint.

-Stephan