[cfe-dev] too slow to build clang

[David Chisnall]

On 19 Jan 2009, at 19:40, Rick Mann wrote:

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> On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:50:16, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>> Only on linux at this point.
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> In more seriousness, what would it take to run gold on Mac OS X?

Major and invasive changes to the OS X loader.  Gold is fast because  
it only supports one binary format, ELF, while the older GNU ld  
supports a.out, ELF and COFF.  OS X uses Mach-O, and is not supported  
by either.

I don't know how Gold compares in terms of performance to the NeXT /  
Apple linker, but I'd be surprised if there was a big difference in  
performance since the Apple linker hasn't inherited the same level of  
cruft as the GNU linker from having multiple binary formats added over  
time.

Porting Gold to *BSD should be relatively easy, but no one appears to  
have both the skill and the motivation to do so.

David