From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10711161614g1315e830i6c28ce006517f65c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:14:50 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port? In-Reply-To: <62bd3bb4109b456634d60ace79426db6@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2ce97e3af2b99d137f6909c256ddaf00@terzarima.net> <62bd3bb4109b456634d60ace79426db6@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fdc6c7f2-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 16, 2007 3:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > pardon the ignorant question. why aren't the first n pages just loaded > on exec? nm -n /bin/* | grep main There's no really good way to know what to pre-page. I think. Now you could have a tool do some smart re-ordering, and some really crazy guys even take traces and re-order the binary structure. It's a simple matter of programming :-) ron