In the past, I have been planning to compare build times (and perhaps sizes) using ld.bfd and ld.gold, but never got around to it.
For the moment I am mostly doing photo edits on my main build machine, and it occurs to me that I can spare at least 4 cores to run some tests. But what ? Firefox looks like a likely target, as does libreoffice - but that needs to download a load of stuff on each run, and past experience suggests that leaving it to run overnight often fails (site being backed up). I will also note that I don't use gold for QT5 (there have been problems), so by the same token I doubt that building the panoply of weird and wonderful deps for any of kde will be worth the time. So, I suppose that leaves webkitgtk (I'll need to build a number of deps, but I think I can adapt my main scripts). The plan is to build (as root, if possible) and DESTDIR install each package 6 times, 3 with each of the linkers, and dropping caches before each run. Does that sound worthwhile ? If so, any other interesting packages ? ĸen -- I live in a city. I know sparrows from starlings. After that everything is a duck as far as I'm concerned. -- Monstrous Regiment -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
