Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!davecb From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Page size and linkers (was: Re: SunMMU history) Message-ID: <21061@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 23 Jan 91 19:24:35 GMT References: <1991Jan19.133914.23871@bellcore.bellcore.com> <3981@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jan23.171327.701@craycos.com> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 17 | In article <3981@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes: | An obvious improvement would be to have the linker order procedures so that | procedures commonly used together were adjacent, and separate from | rarely used procedures. | | Has this been done in any real systems? This was done by the optional ``binder'' on Multics. Binding was done to programs whose performance was important and reference patterns known. Other programs linked dynamically as needed. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave 72 Abitibi Ave., | Willowdale, Ontario, | Even cannibals don't usually eat their CANADA. 416-223-8968 | friends.