By: Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar), August 13, 2019 11:15 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
aaron spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net) on August 13, 2019 7:23 pm wrote:
> LOL. Yeah, most projects I work on have linking times that are on the order of 150x longer than your compile
> (and that's using the good linker, with other versions of the linker, linking alone can take an hour).
It can't actually take that long to LINK, can it? The only time I've seen such long "linking" times is with a compiler doing cross module optimization, so much of the optimization is done at link time.
> LOL. Yeah, most projects I work on have linking times that are on the order of 150x longer than your compile
> (and that's using the good linker, with other versions of the linker, linking alone can take an hour).
It can't actually take that long to LINK, can it? The only time I've seen such long "linking" times is with a compiler doing cross module optimization, so much of the optimization is done at link time.