Another, more productionized, version of my benchmark: processors=12 g++ (Debian 7.3.0-5) 7.3.0 --- -fuse-ld=bfd --- 6.559 user 1.180 system 7.740 total --- -fuse-ld=gold --- 4.575 user 0.600 system 5.176 total --- -fuse-ld=gold -Wl,-threads --- 9.355 user 5.062 system 4.289 total --- -fuse-ld=lld --- 2.700 user 1.058 system 1.157 total --- -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,-threads --- 2.572 user 1.128 system 1.107 total
#!/bin/bash set -eu echo processors=$(nproc) read -a CMDLINE < $(find . -name BUILD_LIBJVM_link.cmdline -print) readonly DRIVER="${CMDLINE[0]}" "$DRIVER" --version | head -1 benchmark() { echo --- "$@" --- local -r TIMEFORMAT="%U user %S system %R total" time "$DRIVER" "$@" "${CMDLINE[@]:1}" } benchmark -fuse-ld=bfd benchmark -fuse-ld=gold benchmark -fuse-ld=gold -Wl,-threads benchmark -fuse-ld=lld benchmark -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,-threads