From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:53:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jqjea3$a0k$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2PKWjqsiAURQy9p+XXG-yywnEmtdqZ6AyPSns4qv_P97g@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/06/12 01:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you use gold or the standard linker?
>>
>>
>> The standard one. I didn't actually think about the importance of this.
>> Does gold work better with LTO?
>
> I don't know much about it, but AFAIK gold is supposed to be several
> times faster at linking in general, and when using it in combination
> with gcc+LTO the compiler actually offloads some of the LTO processing
> to the linker which is supposed to be more efficient.
Sounds like it's worth trying, but one thing doesn't look good; Diego's
blog is full of articles about Gold breakage:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/gold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 20:19 [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-04 21:21 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-04 21:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-04 22:37 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-04 22:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2012-06-05 14:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-06-05 15:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-05 16:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-06-05 21:34 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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