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haosdent updated MESOS-3161: ---------------------------- Description: The [gold linker|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)] seems to provide a decent speedup (about ~20%) on a parallel build. From a quick test: {noformat: title=timings for make check -j24 GTEST_FILTER="" w/ 24 hyperthreaded cores} gold: real 7m18.526s user 81m21.213s sys 5m17.224s default ld: real 9m7.908s user 85m13.466s sys 5m52.199s {noformat} On CentOS 5 w/ devtoolset-2: {noformat} sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --altdir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/etc/alternatives --admindir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/var/lib/alternatives --set ld /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld.gold {noformat} On Ubuntu: {noformat} sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ld ld /usr/bin/gold 1 {noformat} Ideally we could this out on the website, with instructions for each OS. was: The [gold linker|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)] seems to provide a decent speedup (about ~20%) on a parallel build. From a quick test: {noformat: title=timings for make check -j24 GTEST_FILTER="" w/ 24 hyperthreaded cores} gold: real 7m18.526s user 81m21.213s sys 5m17.224s default ld: real 9m7.908s user 85m13.466s sys 5m52.199s {noformat} On CentOS 5 w/ devtoolset-2: {noformat} sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --altdir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/etc/alternatives --admindir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/var/lib/alternatives --set ld /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld.gold {noformat} Ideally we could this out on the website, with instructions for each OS. > Document using the gold linker for faster development on linux. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MESOS-3161 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3161 > Project: Mesos > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: build, documentation > Reporter: Benjamin Mahler > Labels: newbie > > The [gold linker|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(linker)] seems to > provide a decent speedup (about ~20%) on a parallel build. From a quick test: > {noformat: title=timings for make check -j24 GTEST_FILTER="" w/ 24 > hyperthreaded cores} > gold: > real 7m18.526s > user 81m21.213s > sys 5m17.224s > default ld: > real 9m7.908s > user 85m13.466s > sys 5m52.199s > {noformat} > On CentOS 5 w/ devtoolset-2: > {noformat} > sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --altdir > /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/etc/alternatives --admindir > /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/var/lib/alternatives --set ld > /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/ld.gold > {noformat} > On Ubuntu: > {noformat} > sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ld ld /usr/bin/gold 1 > {noformat} > Ideally we could this out on the website, with instructions for each OS. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)