Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756080Ab0DOXkR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:40:17 -0400 Received: from threatwall.zlynx.org ([199.45.143.218]:35531 "EHLO zlynx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754326Ab0DOXkP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:40:15 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1112 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:40:14 EDT Message-ID: <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:25 -0600 From: Zan Lynx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Taras Glek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup References: <4BBA6776.5060804@mozilla.com> <20100415155309.2649a29b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100415155309.2649a29b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Envelope-From: zlynx@acm.org X-Spam-Id: 20100415/1O2YNC-0000yn-Jr-linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org:zlynx@acm.org:199.45.143.218 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 22 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. -- Zan Lynx zlynx@acm.org "Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/