On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:12:26 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> A previous argument against link time optimization support that we have for 
> gcc is that it was extremely slow. After some checks it turns out we are 
> passing rather inefficient flags to gcc in optimized builds. Changing these 
> flags to run the linker optimizations in parallel and passing additional 
> flags to the compiler have the ability to speed this process up 
> significantly. Also fixes some incorrect flags passed to ld for linking as 
> well, since strict-aliasing is required for both linker and compiler, and the 
> same optimization level should be specified instead of letting the default 
> -O1 be passed to the linker

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: aa762102
Author:    Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/aa762102e9328ca76663b56b3be6f6141b044744
Stats:     7 lines in 2 files changed: 4 ins; 0 del; 3 mod

8304893: Link Time Optimization with gcc can be faster

Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13180

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