Translations:Prelink/9/en


 * Prelinking is done via a program called, surprisingly,  . It changes the binary to make it start faster.
 * If an application's dependent libraries change after you have prelinked it, you need to re-prelink the application, otherwise you lose the speed advantage. This is to say, everytime you update a package via portage that updates libraries, they need to be re-prelinked.
 * The change to the binary is fully reversible.  has an undo function.
 * Current versions of Portage can handle, via , the changing MD5sums and mtimes of the binaries.
 * You do not need to set  in your  file; Portage will automatically support prelink if it can find the prelink binary.