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Re: PATCH: 2 stage BFD linker for LTO plugin


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:57:14AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Personally, I think 2 stage linking is one way to fix this issue.
>
> Ian has stated that he thinks this is a really bad idea. ?I haven't
> approved the patch because I value Ian's opinion, and can see why he
> thinks it is the wrong way to go. ?On the other hand, BFD is full of
> bad ideas.. ?I'm not strongly opposed to your patch myself.
>
> HJ, you showed that link times for gcc did not regress too much with
> your 2 stage lto link patch. ?It would be more interesting to see the
> results for a large C++ project, mozilla for example.
>

I don't have such programs at hand. Will timings from gccgo, which is
written in C++, help?


-- 
H.J.


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