[lld] r249520 - Don't create dynamic relocations for weak undefined symbols.

[David Blaikie via llvm-commits]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Rafael Espíndola <
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> > Is it too early to compare LLD to GNU ld or gold? I assume that LLD
> produces
> > much larger executables than those because we don't eliminate duplicate
> > comdats yet, so the answer is yes. Right? (If we generate larger
> > executables, it's naturally slower than those because we are handling
> more
> > data.)
>
> We can start to have an idea. The data I got from linking clang is
>
> gold:
>  0.995407405 seconds time elapsed
>  binary is 64 370 232 bytes long
>
> lld:
>  0.487959495 seconds time elapsed
>  binary is 92 373 304 bytes long
>
> So it looks like this will be a good linker :-)
>

Were these numbers hot/cold, on an SSD?

So if I don't care much about file size - does lld self host LLVM? Perhaps
that'd be an improvement for development if it saves me link time...


>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
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