Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:05:49 +0100 | Subject | Loading ELF executables |
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I'm no expert on ELF, but I have a problem: It semms that when a ELF program is started, several seconds after the last disk activity the program starts up (about 3 seconds on a P100 with 60ns RAM and 256kB PB-cache). As far as I understand ELD shouldn't have a relocation phase as all access to data and code is relative to some base register (PIC, position independent code).
I don't want to beat dead horses, but does anyone else have this problem, and can someone explain it? I've noticed it mainly for emacs and Xfree86 (large programs) when they are started for the first time. Again: I'm talking about loading time, not execution time.
Ulrich
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