Scott L. Burson wrote: > I work on a large C++ program that runs on Linux, Windows, and Solaris, and > on one of my development machines I have been using Nevada build 86 (not OS > 2008.05 which came out at about the same time). > > An ongoing annoyance has been the poor performance of Solaris ld on C++ code. > This program takes about 30 seconds to link with GNU ld on LInux, but a good > 5 minutes with Solaris ld. > > So I'm wondering, (a) has this issue been addressed with Solaris ld or (b) > has anyone gotten GNU ld to work on Solaris? > > And if neither of these has been done and supposing I wanted to attempt one > of them myself, which would you recommend I try to do first? > Does it happen with Sun studio express as well? Is your SS12 totally patched? Failing this I'd recommend posting on the forums [1] if you don't get a prompt reply from the compiler guys.
Cheers, ./C [1] http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=849 ps.. For what it's worth I've compiled *a lot* of code and I'd be very curious the specs for your dev box as the sun compiler guys imho are doing an outstanding job with the compiler and support..
