[Interest] "When its ready"

[Yves Bailly]

Le 16/12/2011 13:02, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> On Friday, 16 de December de 2011 08.47.24, Yves Bailly wrote:
>> Maybe split it in two or more "sub-libraries"?
>
> It's already split into multiple convenience sub-libraries. But the LTCG
> compiles them all into a DLL at the final link time and that is too big.
>
> The only possibility to fix this would be to break into multiple DLLs. I am
> completely opposed to that, as I expect the load time related to so many
> symbols and relocations to be higher.

I can understand that.

However, just for information, I'm currently working on a rather large piece
of software which loads around 200 DLLs on startup (that's 80MB loaded from
disk). The first, cold start can actually be a bit long, around 10s-15s on
currently medium hardware. The second and next ones are way faster, thanks to
system's cache, around 2s-4s - counting all the other actions we're performing
aside from just loading DLLs. This behaviour has been observed since WinXP
(maybe Win2k, not sure), I guess it would be similar on Linux and others.

Anyway, I guess it's only one more sign of the whole world moving to 64bits ;-)

Regards,

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