I too am getting link times in the several minutes range for my modestly sized project, I am on a standalone dual-cpu redhat linux box with 5.04.1 (no nfs, no nuttin')
the project is available at http://repetae.net/john/computer/ginsu/ I think there is definatly something fishy going on. I don't remember linking always taking this long, I just assumed I added a bunch of code to my project or something but linking takes longer than all the other compilation stages combined. John On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:20:44PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:50:56AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > > > > More fun with Haskell-in-the-large: linking time has become the > > > > main bottleneck in our development cycle. The standard solution > > > > would be to use an incremental linker, but it seems that gnu does > > > > not yet support this:-| > > > > > > Hmm, I've never heard of linking being a bottleneck. > > > > The runtime loader stuff I'm working on[1] takes around 10 > > seconds to compile ... and 3 minutes to link it with libHSbase > > and libHSrts. (This is on a 500MHz PIII). Linking is a huge > > bottleneck once you start linking in the Haskell libraries; ld > > takes up enormous amounts of CPU time resolving symbols, > > I think. > > > > 1. > > http://www.algorithm.com.au/wiki/hacking/haske> ll.ghc_runtime_loading > > 3 minutes???!! > > I just downloaded your example code, did './configure && make' and the > link step took about 3 seconds. This is also on a 500MHz PIII. > > Are you sure you're not getting libHSbase over NFS? There may be > something that ld is doing that causes a lot of NFS traffic. > > Cheers, > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users