[LLVMdev] linking time

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Rahul Joshi wrote:
> The stuff I am working on requires linking 9-10 LLVM
> libraries, along with a few libs of my own. The linker is
> taking a long time to do that, about 6 mins (on a P4 with
> 512 MB mem). I tried the latest (2.14) release of binutils,
> but that didn't help. Is anyone aware of any solution to this?

Try downloading and building binutils from CVS.  For me, it sped up
linking "opt" from 61 -> 9s.  Other hints: make sure that the build tree
is on a local disk, not over NFS.

-Chris

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