On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:26:11PM -0500, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> Some of the Ceph developers were investigating mold, since Ceph takes
> so long to build. Linking time is a problem for us with Ceph. But I
> don't know if those interested Ceph developers have done benchmarks
> yet.
>
> And the lack of
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jakub Jelinek wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 01:29:00PM -0500, Ben Beasley wrote:
> > In RPM packaging, of course, everything is built from scratch, usually with
> > LTO, and a package that takes a minute to link probably takes an hour to
> > build. While any wor
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 01:29:00PM -0500, Ben Beasley wrote:
> In RPM packaging, of course, everything is built from scratch, usually with
> LTO, and a package that takes a minute to link probably takes an hour to
> build. While any work that can be saved in an RPM build is helpful, I think
> the g
On Wed, Mar 2 2022 at 05:37:35 PM +, Mattia Verga via devel
wrote:
Accordingly to upstream
presentation, it seems to have far better performances than lld,
especially when building big projects...
A WebKit developer put this to the test recently:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2
I’m not very familiar with mold’s pros and cons other than its speed,
but I think that architecture limitations[1] will limit widespread
adoption for the time being:
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# mold can currently produce native binaries for x86, aarch64 and
riscv64 only
ExclusiveArch: x86_64 aa
disclaimer: I'm a real noob about this topic, so forgive me if I'm
starting a useless discussion.
I came across 'mold' project [1], which is a GNU Gold / LLVM lld
replacement with multi-core support. Accordingly to upstream
presentation, it seems to have far better performances than lld,
especiall
