From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4567 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2005 01:32:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4528 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2005 01:32:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) (204.127.198.35) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 14 Mar 2005 01:32:22 -0000 Received: from lucon.org ([24.6.212.230]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005031401322101300oha5he>; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:32:21 +0000 Received: by lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02A3897F22; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:32:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:32:00 -0000 From: "H. J. Lu" To: Steven Bosscher Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, Nick Clifton , Ben Elliston Subject: Re: PATCH: speed up ar(1) Message-ID: <20050314013220.GA17027@lucon.org> References: <422CE744.7070409@au.ibm.com> <422EF1B4.4040104@redhat.com> <200503140205.47682.stevenb@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503140205.47682.stevenb@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00358.txt.bz2 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. next