[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

Wout Mertens wout.mertens at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 22:45:25 CET 2017


Yes I tried to convince the ML that prelinking /nix/store is sort of
deterministic, but could not get traction. IIRC there is a decent startup
improvement.

OS X does it well, there the dyld automatically does prelinking on the fly,
storing the metadata elsewhere.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 7:36 PM Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/21/2017 06:15 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> > I wonder if it's possible to use "prelink". I think someone mentioned
> > it on the ML some years back.
>
> I suspect prelink addresses a different part of overhead that isn't
> enlarged in nixpkgs.
>
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