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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




  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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