[llvm-dev] (Thin)LTO llvm build

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Sep 17, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So, when I embark on the next ThinLTO try build, probably this Sunday,
> should I append -Wl,-plugin-opt,jobs=NUM_PHYS_CORES to LDFLAGS
> and run ninja without -j or -jNUM_PHYS_CORES?


ThinLTO is fairly lean on memory: It should not consume more memory per thread than if you launch the same number of clang process in parallel to process C++ files.

For example when linking the clang binary itself, without debug info it consumes 0.6GB with 8 threads, 0.9GB with 16 threads, and 1.4GB with 32 threads.
With full debug info, we still have room for improvement, right now it consumes 2.3GB with 8 threads, 3.5GB with 16 threads, and 6.5GB with 32 threads.

So I believe that configuring with -DDLLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS=1 should be enough without other constrains, but your mileage may vary.


— 
Mehdi