On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:00:48PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:49:36PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:55:59PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > But I would still like to hear from Alan what the benefits are. > > > > > > See http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2004-10/msg00178.html > > > > What does _not_ doing intermediates do to memory footprint of ld(1) > > and time spent in there? > > x86_64 defconfig > > rm vmlinux*; time make vmlinux > > Vanilla tree: ~7,7 sec > With single shot ld (Roland's patch): 8,3 secs > > So as expected slower. As we link twice the cost is ~0,3 sec > for a x86_64 defconfig link on my box.
defconfig is not too interesting, but anyway - how much memory does it take in process? And, obviously, what kind of box it is? > So it should be beneficial to do it and Alan's link did not really > convince me for the kernel usage. > Al - do you have any input there? Depends. If more-or-less allmodconfig doesn't kick everything else out of cache and doesn't end up creating fsckloads of seeks... Actually, if you want a killer, see what happens when building with debug info... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
