[llvm-dev] LLD status update and performance chart

[Hal Finkel via llvm-dev]

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> From: "Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> To: "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
> Cc: "llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:28:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] LLD status update and performance chart
> 
> 
> > On Dec 13, 2016, at 5:55 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-dev
> > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Sean Silva via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:
> >> This will also greatly facilitate certain measurements I'd like to
> >> do
> >> w.r.t. different strategies for avoiding memory costs for input
> >> files (esp.
> >> minor faults and dTLB costs). I've almost gotten to the point of
> >> implementing this just to do those measurements.
> > 
> > If you do please keep it local. The bare minimum we have of library
> > support is already disproportionately painful and prevents easier
> > sharing
> > with COFF. We should really not add more until the linker is done.
> 
> This is so much in contrast with the LLVM development, I find it
> quite hard to see this as an acceptable position on llvm-dev.

I agree. As a project, we should evaluate all potential contributions on their merrits, and it seems useful to withhold judgement on software-engineering tradeoffs until we can evaluate the code impact concretely.

 -Hal

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Hal Finkel
Lead, Compiler Technology and Programming Languages
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory