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Re: Excessive link time with 2.16.1
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:06:15PM -0500, David M. Lee wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> Here are the link times for the example mentioned in PR2342 and my application for various binutils. The patch helped a lot, but it's not the only problem.
>
> | 2.15.94.0.2.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.1 +PR2342 patch
> -------+---------------+---------+---------------------
> slowld | 4m 17s | 4m 16s | 15s
> myapp | 11s | 13m 03s | 1m 07s
>
> So the patch definitely fixes the problem the 'slowld' example had, and addresses most of the problem with myapp.
>
The Linux binutils 2.17.50.0.2 includes that patch.
H.J.