On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Paul T. Bauman wrote:
I would love to see how it could be sped up. The vast majority of time in make install is spent in linking the library and there's no getting around that.
Looping over directory after directory costs some time, and I've heard a non-recursive automake setup would fix that. For linking the library, IIRC most modern linkers operate in serial unless you explicitly try to tell them to parallelize? That's annoying and we could look into that if it bothers people. I think Derek specifically referred to the re-linking of apps whenever the library changes, though. That's definitely more paranoid than it needs to be. Presumably to be compatible with static linking and weird-HPUX-linkers and whatnot, automake forces a re-link whenever the library changes, not just whenever the ABI changes? I prefer too-paranoid over not-paranoid-enough, but it might be possible to tweak the behavior to fall in-between. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
