PATCH: speed up ar(1)

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Mar 14 01:32:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:05:47AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> 
> I was all cheeded up for the day when I saw this patch and its
> effect on ar times for libjava (Ben was my hero  - he does that
> sometimes).  As a GCC hacker, I have to build libjava quite
> often, and ar time is actually a serious problem for this huge
> PITA library.
> So the sooner I have a "production" binutils with this patch,
> the better ;-)  Is there really no chance that the patch can
> go into 2.16?
> 

FWIW, I am planning to make a Linux binutils release from the mainline
within 2 weeks if it is stable enough.


H.J.
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