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 ====== ObjPrelink ======
-**Warning:** Objprelink is no longer useful.
+<box 160px red left>
+**Objprelink is \\
-Objprelink is a code transformation tool that optimizes C++ shared libraries
+//no longer useful//.**
-in order to reduce the runtime linking time. This tool was very effective
+</box>
-in 2001 for speeding up KDE2.  This is no longer the case because newer
+Objprelink is a code transformation tool that optimizes
-runtime linkers perform much better in that respect.
+the runtime linking times of C++ shared libraries.
+Although objprelink was little more than a proof of concept,
+many people used it to speedup [[http://www.kde.org|KDE2]]
+back in 2001-2002. This is no longer useful since
+runtime linkers now contain optimizations similar in
+nature to those demonstrated by objprelink.
+Anyway, objprelink only works with ancient versions
+of the [[http://gcc.gnu.org|GCC]] compiler.
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