> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:12:15PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > rm vmlinux*; time make vmlinux > > > > > > Vanilla tree: ~7,7 sec > > > With single shot ld (Roland's patch): 8,3 secs > > > > Shouldn't you compare: > > rm vmlinux*; find . -name built-in.o -print | xargs rm > > time make vmlinux > > or something like that? > > No. You are talking about the time of full build; there it would > be relevant. For incrementals it's definitely not so.
Ah, I see what you are testing. Well, a fair test then is to do something that would actually happen, which is almost never just "rm vmlinux". i.e., at least one ld -r -o foo/built-in.o from changing one source file. Thanks, Roland - 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/
