Ubuntu UI Toolkit

  1. Bug #1304709
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1304709

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

Additional notes from IRC:
< cjwatson> Disabling -Bsymbolic on armhf has potential significant performance effects for process startup, so I think we should try to avoid it if we can
< cjwatson> Or rather -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions, I guess you mean
< cjwatson> Perhaps worth verifying my intuition about what effect it actually has
< cjwatson> But Qt seems like exactly the sort of hot spot that -Bsymbolic-functions is best at

So maybe not a good idea necessarily on armhf.

See also the suggestions in the upstream bug report https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36129 to try '-pie -fPIE', would it workaround this problem on an app basis?