[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] configure: Add --with-llvm-shared-libs

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2012-03-29 at 00:07 -0700, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> 
> Also note that this will saves disk at the expense of runtime memory
> -- as the shared LLVM library will contain the _whole_ LLVM, and not
> just the components targets needed, and given that there is usually
> only xxx_dri.so module on a system at a time, that means a net
> increase. libLLMVM-3.0 is 22MB on my system, which means 22MB - 13MB =
> +9MB of increased memory usage. Linux kernel may page out some
> portions to disk though.

Or never page in the unused parts in the first place. :)

And as soon as a second *_dri.so comes into play (e.g. swrast_dri.so for
testing something with software rendering), it's a win either way.


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