On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 00:50:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/5/14, 2:47 PM, Asman01 wrote:
Today I've found a good alternative to slow gcc's linker:
gold. Written
by Google in C++ it's a linker writen for large code bases
with C++ in
mind. The author claims it's about 5 times fast than gcc's
one. It does
support ELF only and UNIX-like symtem I think it's enough to
dmd on
linux or am I missing something? I believe it can reduce a lot
dmd's
compilation speed on these system. It's under same GPL as
gcc's ld. I
wonder if we can use it to make dmd still fastest. :)
It seems same case as Facebook needed a new C++ preprocessor
for its
large code base.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com.br/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lfcs2012_ccoutant.pdf
s/reduce/improve/
Yah, we've been using gold for a long time. Not on all projects
though, on some it crashes.
Andrei
haha. It's great already being using it. So, it's not a full
replacement to gcc's ld because it is not stable enough, right?
if so, do you think it's valuable (for DMD community) to someone
put some effort to try to fix as possible this crashes? I will do
some test on my linux machine later to see how fast and stable it
is.
