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Re: Concurrent linking plan for gold
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:42:37 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Concurrent linking plan for gold
- References: <m34p0nlxm6.fsf@google.com>
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Here is a plan for implementing concurrent linking for gold. This
> permits the linker to run in parallel with compilation, thus avoiding
> the long link delay at the end of building a large program. I would
> be happy to hear any comments on this.
I missed notes on repeatability, most importantly for bug
reports. (Or just a "sorry, no can do".) A log file which can
be input as a job list, perhaps. I guess you'd need to make
sure the output is determined by the files remaining at the end,
that is, not on overwritten contents.
brgds, H-P