[lld] r312796 - Currently lld creates a single section to collect all commons. There is no way

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits]

Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola via
> llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Shoaib Meenai <smeenai at fb.com> writes:
>>
>> > I can try to get some more measurements. How is LLD performance
>> generally evaluated? Do you use any particular profiling tools? (I'm
>> running my link on Linux.)
>>
>> I would recommend following all tips in
>> http://llvm.org/docs/Benchmarking.html. With that it should be possible
>> to get much smaller variations.
>>
>
> Rafael, this is sort of random, but could you put a link to your benchmark
> corpus on that page? I always keep digging through my email to find the
> link but it seems generally useful to have it on the benchmarking page.

The benchmark is very lld specific. I can put a link to it somewhere in
lld/docs.

Do we have a llvm specific location for putting large files or is
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz OK?

Cheers,
Rafael