Re: [GOLD] add new method for computing a build ID

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 03 October 2012 15:25:44 David Miller wrote:
> From: gpike@chromium.org
> Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2012 12:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > Motivation for the change: computing a build ID is currently a
> > sequential bottleneck. E.g., in the example I mentioned in my email
> > yesterday, a 24.5s link was spending 5.2s on the build ID computation.
> 
> Have you tried linking with OpenSSL and using their optimized MD5 and
> SHA1 variants?  I bet it makes a huge difference, some cpus even have
> SHA1 and MD5 instructions.

last i heard, openssl's license is incompatible with the GPL
-mike

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