[LLVMdev] [lld] multithread options

Rui Ueyama ruiu at google.com
Fri Mar 6 16:02:04 PST 2015


I doubt if these options are useful. I don't have any need, so I don't like
to add these options at least at this moment.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The gold linker has these options to specify how threads would be used by
> the linker. I am not sure what these options are for but I think its for
> debugging the linker, maybe.
>
> Are we planning to support these options ?
>
> <snip from manpage>
>        --threads
>               Run the linker multi-threaded
>
>        --no-threads
>               Do not run the linker multi-threaded
>
>        --thread-count COUNT
>               Number of threads to use
>
>        --thread-count-initial COUNT
>               Number of threads to use in initial pass
>
>        --thread-count-middle COUNT Number of threads to use in middle pass
>
>        --thread-count-final COUNT
>               Number of threads to use in final pass
>
> <snip>
>
> Shankar Easwaran
>
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