If you're using a modern GNU ld, remove the shared library and add a few more flags to LINK_DYNAMIC in Makefile. Here's mine:
LINK_DYNAMIC =
-Wl,-E,-O1,-zdynsort,-hashvals,--hash-style=gnu,-zcombreloc
These options seem to speed up the test suite for me by 10 - 15%. I'm curious
to see if there are similar effects for other people.
(Yes, cutting libparrot's export list down from 9700 symbols may make more
difference.)
-- c
