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From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: DWARF Extensions for Separate Debug Info Files ("Fission")
To: Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com>
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com> wrote:

> Because the linker doesn't need to copy around/update/modify the DWARF,
> link times are very fast.

AFAIU, the link times are fast only if all the files are local to the
developers' machine.

They will not be fast (and the .o files *will* need to be copied) if a
distributed compilation system (a build farm) is used (as is the case here).

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov