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Re: [GOLD] ideas for speeding up gold
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Geoff Pike <gpike@chromium.org> wrote:
> Final thought: when it is time to compute the build ID, would calling
> msync() help encourage the OS to write dirty pages to the output file?
> I tried this and didn't see much effect, but I may try again after #1
> is fixed.
My impression is that it's better to msync() with MS_ASYNC then
fsync() the file descriptor.
Nico
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