The Power and Pain of Hidden Symbols

If you develop on Windows, you're used to the pain and annoyance of having to manually export symbols from your DLLs.

If you develop on Unix, you're used to symbols in shared objects being implicitly exported.

In this talk we'll discuss why you might want to make all symbols default hidden, what the pain points will be in this process, and the, and the potentially significant gains you'll make when you're done.