Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto@gmail.com) on 11/13/09 wrote:
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>rwessel (robertwessel@yahoo.com) on 11/12/09 wrote:
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>>Now that doesn't mean that real projects can't use parallelism during the build
>>process. Any parallel make tool will do that for you, and is probably already being
>>used on large projects. Unfortunately Amdahl bites us at this point and often one
>>of the biggest consumers of (wall clock) time is then the link step (and frankly
>>linker performance is often astonishingly slow).
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>That's a problem that is being worked on fortunately (at least in the FOSS world):
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>http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-03/msg00162.html

I am using the Gold linker myself, and it is definitely faster than the normal one. However, I think rwessel was referring to LTCG - and the Gold linker is not going to be any help here. Furthermore, LTCG on Linux is in its infancy right now, since GCC does not support it (there will be support in GCC 4.5).