On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 12:38 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > the sc, sd, sw libraries already take forever to link with full debug,
You link with full debug ? :-) > and adding more stuff to them would also impact startup performance for > the respective application. Not necessarily; by merging libraries together we can potentially improve startup performance a fair bit. Fewer scattered libraries on disk means better access times, more scope for LTO, and faster run-time linking. > (of course i don't care if you do it for a special "merged libs" mode, > but C++ development is already a sufficiently unproductive activity that > we shouldn't make it even more so...) Is it necessary to build with full debug enabled ? how slow is it really ? [ if it takes ten minutes - how slow is it to re-build with just the bits you want symbols for & re-run whatever you're debugging ?]. I wonder if the new 'gold' linker will help performance wise - have you tried it ? Regards, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice