[PATCH] D86905: Flush bitcode incrementally for LTO output

Sat Oct 9 13:46:16 PDT 2021

mehdi_amini added a comment.

In D86905#3053455 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D86905#3053455>, @stephan.yichao.zhao wrote:

> In D86905#3053392 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D86905#3053392>, @mehdi_amini wrote:
>
>> I didn't notice this was already committed, but numbers are still interesting to go with the change, can you post some here?
>
> I dont have a statistic result. 
> This change mainly helps large binaries. In my cases, a binary is ~8G, the other RAM used for LTO is ~40G. So this change reduces 17% memory overhead. 
> This 17% reduction is important to me because otherwise I have to find a machine with more than the normal RAM limit to build this binary.

Thanks, this is exactly the kind of "numbers" I was looking for actually.

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