linux-kernel - Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup

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Message-ID: <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:25 -0600
From:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Taras Glek <tglek@...illa.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup

On 4/15/10 4:53 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This just isn't an interesting case.  World-wide, the number of people
> who compile their own web browser and execute it from the file which ld
> produced is, umm, seven.

Gentoo users? Linux From Scratch?

There are many more than 7 of us. Unless you are talking about the build 
environments always running some tool after ld which I am not aware of.


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Zan Lynx
zlynx@....org

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