http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43601
--- Comment #60 from Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail dot com> 2011-04-18 03:48:19 UTC --- With Kai's great work on binutils, after ld running 172 minutes (usr + sys), and the memory usage growing to: VmPeak: 5995156 kB VmSize: 5995156 kB VmHWM: 1900732 kB VmRSS: 1219200 kB VmData: 5986232 kB The link finished: -rwxr-xr-x 1 dongsheng dba 10499584 Apr 18 11:27 wxmsw28u_gcc.dll I think the memory usage (6GB) and CPU time consume (172 minutes) have a great room for improvement.