[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 5887] Add support for -Bsymbolic-functions to LD checks

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5887

Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #11 from Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> 2009-10-21 11:02:59 PDT ---
Honestly, why bother?  We're talking about a tiny tiny tiny reduction in binary
size and a probably negligible performance increase, and the risk is breaking
things in unknown ways by using a linker flag that clearly we don't completely
understand.

The visibility and alias stuff is a little annoying, but it's a known quantity
and is something well-used by other projects... and we already have (had?) it
set up.

If you really want to find ways to increase performance, profile your app and
fix bottlenecks.  Unless I see real-world benchmarks showing that
-Bsymbolic-functions actually has a material effect on performance, I don't see
a reason to use it.

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