Improving program startup with fastbind [HP-UX Linker] White paper

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Figure 2: Sample run of fastbind
Figure 3 shows the new startup times for mozilla after using fastbind. in. As can be seen, the time
spent in processing startup relocations has been cut down by half.
Figure 3: Time spent in dynamic loader at startup after using fastbind.
Notice that the program startup time is cut down to half of the time spent before using fastbind.
# fastbind /usr/bin/ls
# fastbind /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
fastbind: Unable to find library 'libmozjs.sl'.
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla fastbind /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin
#
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla _HP_DLDOPTS=-time /opt/mozilla/mozilla-
bin
In loading shared libraries:
real 0m0.01s
user 0m0.00s
sys 0m0.00s
In applying relocations:
real 0m0.01s
user 0m0.01s
sys 0m0.01s
In shared library initialization:
real 0m0.00s
user 0m0.00s
sys 0m0.00s
Total startup time:
real 0m0.03s
user 0m0.01s
sys 0m0.01s
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: