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>10 minutes for linking? The only projects I've touched which have had those kinds of link times have been behemoths like Chromium. That must absolutely suck to
by writebetterc 1y ago
>10 minutes for linking? The only projects I've touched which have had those kinds of link times have been behemoths like Chromium. That must absolutely suck to work with.
I don't know the exact amounts of time per phase, but you might change a header file and that will of course hurt you a lot more than 1 translation unit.
> Eh, not really. Working with a binary where all variables are optimized out and all operators are inlined is hell.
Yeah, but sometimes that's life. Reading the assembly and what not to figure things out.
>That must absolutely suck to work with.
Well, you know, I also get to work on something approximately as exciting as Chromium.
- mort96 1y ago> I don't know the exact amounts of time per phase, but you might change a header file and that will of course hurt you a lot more than 1 translation unit. Yeah, which is why I was talking about source files. I was surprised that changing 1 source file (meaning re-compiling that one source file and then re-linking the project) takes 10 minutes. If you're changing header files then yeah it's gonna take longer.
- writebetterc 1y agoFWIW, I've heard from people who know this stuff that linking is actually super slow for us :). I also wanted to try out mold, but I couldn't manage to get it to work.