Talk:Prelink

More data

This page seriously needs more data, including:

• The mechanism on which prelink works, including executable headers and information stored
• Detriments of prelink, such as not working with address space layout randomization

--John Moser 16:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Your first point saddens me; I'd thought I'd done a fairly good job explaining just that. :( --maru (talk) contribs 18:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge

IMHO this article should be merged with prebinding. In fact, instead of talking only about the Red Hat tool, I would rename this article to "prelinking", and then first discuss the generic technique, and later the tools used in different OS: prelink, Mac OS X, Irix Quickstart, Solaris crle... —surueña 14:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Could be merged, but seemed to fit my needs just fine for now. However, if no further data is added to both Prelink and Prebinding within the next six or more months, then might as well merge. For now, just seems more work to merge then the benefits as both prelink & prebinding are currently cross linked for others to see Mac uses something else. <shrugs> Rogerx (talk) 19:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

"seemed to fit my needs just fine for now" is a petty argument!! VasileGaburici (talk) 19:29, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I think an overall page or merge would be a good idea. IRIX' rqs (requickstart) is somewhat different in scope, in that each DSO is assigned an address range it can be requickstarted to to avoid overlap or running out of virtual address space, and which works in a NUMA context. An overall page that lists out the differences between the DSO pre-binders would be a good thing, I think. 12.34.212.64 (talk) 17:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Linux

Other OSes use the ELF as well, so i fail to understand why ELF would be a reason for prelink to be in any way Linux-related. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.74.86.240 (talk) 01:38, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Nowhere in the current article ELF is stated to be Linux specific. --Tactica (talk) 14:29, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

XP application prefetching serves a similar purpose =

Somebody reverted a "see also" to XP's (poorly named) prefetcher page. The see also is appropriate. The .pf file helps XP to avoid page faults when loading an executable, thus cutting down the loading time. Prelinking is done for the same purpose, even though it uses a different mechanism. And, yes, IAACS with a master degree in file systems. VasileGaburici (talk) 19:27, 28 August 2008 (UTC)