Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup

[Andi Kleen]

Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 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?

"make install" tends to copy. I am not aware of any Makefiles
that link directly to /usr/bin, and usually that wouldn't work
anyways because of permissions. copy fixes the problem.

-Andi

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