Options to Improve TLB Hit Rates............................................................................................

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Profile-Based Optimization (Itanium)........................................................................................

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Incremental Linking...............................................................................................................

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Using Incremental Linking Options......................................................................................

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Archive Library Processing.................................................................................................

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Shared Library Processing.................................................................................................

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Performance ...................................................................................................................

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Reusing Compiled Object Files (PA-RISC).................................................................................

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Improving Performance with the Global Symbol Table................................................................

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Improving Performance by Optimizing the Hash Table Size........................................................

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Improving Performance with Function Symbol Aliasing...............................................................

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Improving Shared Library Start-Up Time with fastbind................................................................

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Using fastbind.................................................................................................................

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Invoking the fastbind Tool..................................................................................................

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Invoking fastbind from the Linker........................................................................................

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How to Tell if fastbind Information is Current........................................................................

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Removing fastbind Information from a File...........................................................................

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Turning off fastbind at Run Time.........................................................................................

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Glossary..................................................................................................

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