From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29445 invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2006 13:07:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 29308 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Aug 2006 13:07:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pro75-4-82-238-201-39.fbx.proxad.net (HELO mail.maunakeatech.com) (82.238.201.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:07:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.maunakeatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC4869CA; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.maunakeatech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maunakea [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15769-08; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kaena.maunakeatech.zone (kaena.maunakeatech.zone [192.168.1.111]) by mail.maunakeatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA846762; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicolas Savoire To: "Talbot, George" Subject: Re: Long linking time Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 Cc: "H. J. Lu" , "Alan Modra" , binutils@sourceware.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608281506.56187.nicos@maunakeatech.com> Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00301.txt.bz2 I confirm that. I saw no improvement when using binutils-2.17.50.0.3 from ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ . Though I found a patch (http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-04/msg00329.html) which reduces linking time from 6 minutes to 20 seconds! nicolas On Monday 28 August 2006 15:02, Talbot, George wrote: > Do you mean that the patch is already in the source distribution for > binutils-2.17.50.0.3? > > The caching patch is not in binutils-2.17.50.0.3, from what I can tell. > I don't mean to be dense, but I did have to put it in there myself, and > it wasn't in the README at the top-level of the source tree. > > Let me know what I'm missing here. > > -- > > George T. Talbot > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: H. J. Lu [mailto:hjl@lucon.org] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:44 AM > To: Talbot, George > Cc: Alan Modra; nicos@maunakeatech.com; binutils@sourceware.org > Subject: Re: Re: Long linking time > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:17:37AM -0400, Talbot, George wrote: > > I tried the latest version. It didn't help that much. I then > > hand-applied the patch that caches the value of the kept symbols, and > > that helped a dramatic amount. I would strongly argue for the > > inclusion > > If you follow README for the latest Linux binutils, that patch should > be applied. > > > H.J.