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Replacing BFD with Gold (ELF-only) or LLD can be a huge win. On the last major production codebase I did this for, linking a single artifacts went from ~60 sec
by MaulingMonkey 7y ago
Replacing BFD with Gold (ELF-only) or LLD can be a huge win.
On the last major production codebase I did this for, linking a single artifacts went from ~60 seconds (BFD) to ~10 (Gold). Multiply by nearly 100 artifacts (several dozen libraries, several dozen tools, per-library unit tests, benchmarks, applications, etc. all statically linking some common code), and some basic incremental "I touched a single .cpp file" builds went from 30+ minutes to maybe 5 minutes for a single platform x config combination.