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Re: "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects (

On 12/08/2010 01:19 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> To be honest I don't really see the point of all this complexity you
> guys are proposing just to save fat LTO. Fat LTO is always a bad idea
> because it's slow and  does lots of redundant work. If LTO is to become
> a more wide spread mode it has to go simply because of the poor
> performance.
> 

As someone who encountered slim LTO on Unix 17 years ago (on MIPS) I can
promise you that unless fat LTO is supported, there will never be a
successful transition.  The amount of work to deal with the make
environment every time simply made it not worth it.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
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