On czwartek 04 wrzesień 2003 08:43 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On czwartek 04 wrzesieñ 2003 09:25 am, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> On my 2.7GHz machine the link step now takes 1:27 (xforms), 1:36 (qt). > >> This is making it somewhat painful to code :-( Could we think about > >> revisiting partial linking et al.? > | > | Unfortunately, after looking at it again, it seems that at least on RH9 > | partial linking gives almost no benefit (a couple percent maybe) :( > | > | I guess it may be worthwhile to look at linker code, try profiling and > | see where it spends most of its time :) > | > | I guess that qt 4 will reduce linking time somewhat, other than that > | boost is probably the scapegoat to blame. > > No it is not! > > The amount of debugging information in the object files are to blame.
I stand corrected :) So the linker churns so long while generating debug info? Well, I guess if we have tens of megabytes worth of symbol table, then even disk bandwidth (and latency!) comes into play. Cheers, Kuba Ober
