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Ways to Improve Performance
8 Ways to Improve Performance
The linker provides several ways you can improve your application
performance.
• “Linker Optimizations” describes how the linker -O option removes
unnecessary ADDIL instructions and “dead” or unused procedures.
• “Options to Improve TLB Hit Rates”describes performance
improvements in Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) hit rates.
• “Profile-Based Optimization” describes how the linker can position
your code in the object file or shared library to improve performance.
• “Improving Shared Library Start-Up Time with fastbind” describes
how to improve shared library performance by saving startup
information and bypassing the lookup process when running an
application.