DLL linking performance

Pascal Obry pascal@obry.net
Thu Mar 29 17:43:00 GMT 2012


Kai,

> if you plan to switch to v1, this is a really bad idea in general.

I understand, but this is the only option for a current toolchain. A
switch will be done to mingw64 for the next version.

>  The link-delay you are noticing for v1 is caused by section-attribute
> changes for allowing write on read-only sections.  There is actual no
> real time-difference between v1 and v2, beside that sections getting
> marked temporary writeable.  The amount of relocation between both
> versions is identical.

Understood, this means no chance to get an improved link time.

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Pascal.

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