Concurrent linking plan for gold

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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