Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Oct 2006 00:04 UTC, submitted by Rahul
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2005-07-06
There should be a big peformance boost with two key changes. These will reduce application startup times.
DT_GNU_HASH which makes a huge difference with with speeding up linking.
Fontconfig 2.4 which was a real bottleneck for GUI applications. I done some tests with valgrind and kcachegrind and found that fontconfig accounted for about half the startup time.