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Re: Concurrent linking plan for gold
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> 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.
Good idea, thanks.
Ian