> I looked a bit closer, and for objects build *without* debugging, the > difference is not that large at all, gold is only about twice as fast. > (8 vs. 20 seconds)
I re-configured with --enable-debug (for everything), and did a partial rebuild (re-compiling whatever needed to be recompiled after a fresh pull, which did include a lots of stuff that goes into libmerged). Now linking libmergedlo.so with -fuse-ld=gold takes 1 min 40 s, of which 14 s user, 13 s sys (which I guess means it was mainly I/O bound, my machine has just 2 GB memory). With -fuse-ld=bfd it takes 3 min 15 s (59 s user, 5 s sys). With all objects built with debugging information the difference would presumably be much larger. So using gold does indeed seem to be useful, but only for builds including debugging information. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
